New jobs in sports analytics!

32nd edition! 7 handpicked jobs for you!

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Franco Betteo
January 02, 2025

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Happy New Year! I wish you a great 2025 and a lot of success around your career in terms of learning and being in the right job, which ultimately shapes your day to day..

Featured jobs, trends and recommendations to work in the sports industry.

🚀 Jobs metric: 101 new jobs in the last two weeks!! 🚀

The end of the year and the holiday season are a natural break for job searching but I’m happy it didn’t go too low and we’ll grow from this point in the next few weeks.

My commitment is to keep improving that metric, that’s the current number I want to optimize.

It’s not easy to make order of magnitude improvements as the nature of this board is to find and promote the not so abundant sports analytics jobs, at least in comparison with other industries, but here we are, doing our best.

Being said that…

New  jobs is Sports

Today, as we are starting 2025 with high hopes and energy, I’m sending a handpicked list of 7 data science jobs recently posted in the last week.

Content You Might Like

Football (soccer) AI

I share below a super interesting notebook that guides you through the creation of a system to detect players and derive some metrics based on computer vision techniques applied to game recordings.

Abstract:
Let's build a Football AI system to dig deeper into match stats! We'll use computer vision and machine learning to track players, determine which team is which, and even calculate stuff like ball possession and speed. This tutorial is perfect if you want to get hands-on with sports analytics and see how AI can take your football analysis to the next level.

I highly encourage you to take a look and see if you can follow it if you are into computer vision, even more if there is something you can use to create some new metric you can then showcase that!

Curious about randomness in scores across different team sports and how that affects unexpected results? Not only about the results, about how a research team analyzed it and presented the results? This is a cool paper to achieve those goals and goes across many sports so it can be a useful methodology for other projects!

In this paper, we examine team ball sports to investigate how the likelihood of weaker teams winning against stronger ones, referred to as underdog achievement, is influenced by inherent randomness factors that affect match outcomes in such sports. To address our research question, we collected data on match scores and computed corresponding team rankings from major international competitions for 12 popular team ball sports: basketball, cricket, field hockey, futsal, handball, ice hockey, lacrosse, roller hockey, rugby, soccer, volleyball, and water polo. Then, we developed an underdog achievement score to identify the sports with the highest occurrences of weaker teams prevailing over stronger ones, and we designed a randomness model consisting of factors that contribute to unexpected match outcomes within each sport. Our findings indicate that soccer is among the sports in which a weaker team is most likely to win. Through principal component analysis (PCA) and correlation analysis, we demonstrate that our randomness model can explain such a phenomenon, showing that the underdog achievement can be attributed to numerous factors that can randomly influence match outcomes.

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