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I too, like lhuang, am working on a project using sports analytics. It has to do with amateur sports versus his NFL sports.

Regarding the math aspect - I think prediction of performance or how certain teams/coaches affect different types of athletes is very interesting.

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I've been working with a company for the past while now that deals with sports data. Perhaps you can verify this for me, but I've noticed a pattern: if a sport is American, and in a college, the stats and math behind it are disproportionately more convoluted than ANY OTHER sport, league, etc.

We've explored analyzing the impact that coaches bring to teams and athletes and have found some interesting results.

The big problem though, is that with the NFL at least, there are just wayyyyy too many coaches a player touches and that makes it hard to model to a degree.