🏀 Sports Analytics

SPORTS ANALYTICS

1. What does a career in sports analytics mean? │ https://ca.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/what-is-sports-analytics 

2. Outlook: │ https://work.chron.com/job-market-sports-analysts-24524.html

3. Getting started: │

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Extras:

• Analyzing Baseball with R │ https://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/

• How Analytics Transforms Formula 1 Racing │ https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelshapiro/2023/01/26/data-driven-at-200-mph-how-analytics-transforms-formula-one-racing/

• NFL Big Data 2023 Evaluation Competition │ https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/nfl-big-data-bowl-2023/overview/evaluation

• Free Soccer Analytics Resources │ https://statsbomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Working-with-R.pdf

- PROGRESS TALKS -

1. Tan Bin Ru (Chief Executive Officer of ocft.com, ‘Top 5 Women in FinTech’ Singapore Awards )

Q: What’s the best work-related advice you’ve ever received?

 I am very lucky to have met many good mentors. One of them, when he moved from Hewlett-Packard to Microsoft, I decided to move as well. Initially, he wanted to give me a new role but, during the interview, he had second thoughts about the decision. I grew defensive and gave him all the reasons why I should be hired. I reiterated my experiences and the fact that I was his top performer at Hewlett-Packard. Instead, he told me to go back and think of a different set of reasons why the organization should hire me.

It took me a few days and, when I went back, I told him that the organization was at this particular stage, and that my expertise was complementary. He then told me that, even though the reasons were largely the same, this time it wasn’t all just about me, but about the organization as a whole.

This really stuck with me because, a lot of times, we are very competent individuals, and we have a tendency to only look at our own strengths and what we deserve. A lot of times, that’s what’s getting in the way of you moving up.  

Q: What’s the greatest risk you’ve taken as a professional?

Switching careers to something that I’d totally never done before. In my early days, I’d never done sales before. I was a mathematics student, and I started in compliance and operations.

At one point, I was looking after three or four hundred staff in operations, and I decided to switch to sales instead. It was very difficult. Everybody told me that it was not wise because I was way too senior to move, and it was to a smaller team on a lower corporate level.

The whole world was basically telling me that it was a downgrade. But I did it for the skills that I wanted to learn, and I have never looked back.

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2. Michael Jordan (American former basketball player and businessman, led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships and won the MVP Award five times.)

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