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I'm in the Iowa state sports analytics club at Iowa state and Matt Campbell came and talked to our club about it.

At Toledo he actually hired a guy that did analytics and later went to the bengals because he did such a good job. They use to map out even what ways they should run the ball etc.

He didn't say if he hired someone at Iowa state to do it yet but my guess is he has. I know they use it a lot for recruiting he told us.
 
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NetflixAndClone said:
I'm in the Iowa state sports analytics club at Iowa state and Matt Campbell came and talked to our club about it.

At Toledo he actually hired a guy that did analytics and later went to the bengals because he did such a good job. They use to map out even what ways they should run the ball etc.

He didn't say if he hired someone at Iowa state to do it yet but my guess is he has. I know they use it a lot for recruiting he told us.
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I just joined the club and am pretty excited about attending my first meeting. Had no idea we had the club here at Iowa State until this week. Now I'm wishing I would have found it earlier so I could have seen Campbell present.
 
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CloneFan4 said:
I just joined the club and am pretty excited about attending my first meeting. Had no idea we had the club here at Iowa State until this week. Now I'm wishing I would have found it earlier so I could have seen Campbell present.
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we will probably get him back in the spring. In these next few weeks we will go to the sukup basketball facility and Naz will probably talk about analytics. Should be fun.
 
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This club exists? I was just talking to someone who works in ISU athletics about getting into analytics in sports. That's what I want to do. I'm a first year MBA student.
 
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This club exists? I was just talking to someone who works in ISU athletics about getting into analytics in sports. That's what I want to do. I'm a first year MBA student.
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What did you major in for your undergrad? I really want to do the same, but I'm wondering how bad my degree (accounting) and the fact that all my internships are accounting based and not analytics based will effect my job prospects.
 
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What did you major in for your undergrad? I really want to do the same, but I'm wondering how bad my degree (accounting) and the fact that all my internships are accounting based and not analytics based will effect my job prospects.
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Psychology. I'm hoping to get a data analytics internship next summer, but I'm worried not having any sports internships/jobs will be my problem.
 
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Psychology. I'm hoping to get a data analytics internship next summer, but I'm worried not having any sports internships/jobs will be my problem.
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Same boat it looks like. Where are you going to Grad School? I see Grand View has a Sports Management Grad School Program.
 
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Psychology. I'm hoping to get a data analytics internship next summer, but I'm worried not having any sports internships/jobs will be my problem.
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CloneFan4 said:
What did you major in for your undergrad? I really want to do the same, but I'm wondering how bad my degree (accounting) and the fact that all my internships are accounting based and not analytics based will effect my job prospects.
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If you have any experience in statistical or mathematical modeling and coding/programming skills then you will be well-prepared. That is the foundation of all sports/data analytics. If you have any of those tools at your disposable then the world will become your oyster.

If you don't have those tools yet it is never too late to learn and there are plenty of free and accessible sources online- if independent learning is your thing. It is not necessary to take pricey, university courses and if anything most pertinent courses are not current with the fast-moving, newish field.
 
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I emailed Pollard about this soon after Campbell's hire, trying to see if there was any interest. At that point he said we didn't have anyone like that in the department.

That would basically be my dream job, and I told him it's about the only job I'd immediately leave my current one for. And Jamie, in case you're reading this, I have extensive experience in statistical modeling, coding, some experience in machine learning/big data, and was selected to have a research poster displayed at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2014 (An Adversarial Risk Analysis Framework for Football Game Planning).
 
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I emailed Pollard about this soon after Campbell's hire, trying to see if there was any interest. At that point he said we didn't have anyone like that in the department.

That would basically be my dream job, and I told him it's about the only job I'd immediately leave my current one for. And Jamie, in case you're reading this, I have extensive experience in statistical modeling, coding, some experience in machine learning/big data, and was selected to have a research poster displayed at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2014 (An Adversarial Risk Analysis Framework for Football Game Planning).
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I can't lie, my true nerd is dying to hang out with this guy.
 
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It's great to hear there's a sports analytics club at ISU! I wish that would've been around when I was there.

Those of you involved with the club should really reach out to Dan Nettleton, a professor in the statistics department (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dnett/). He's recently got into doing sports statistics with some of his graduate students. His former student, Dennis Lock, is currently the director of analytics with the Miami Dolphins! https://las.iastate.edu/the-tactics-behind-the-touchdown/
 
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