Sports Analytics Hire

[Donkey]

This could be a huge benefit for the basketball program, and we know how Miles has previously embraced new trends . . . .

 

 

http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/husker-sports/nebraska-aims-to-set-trend-in-sport-analytics-with-hire/article_e9735fe4-0e32-5bbc-8a9f-b749134c7f56.html

[AuroranHusker]

Coach Miles is certainly a big fan of the hire...

 

 

[ajb5856]

This could be a huge benefit for the basketball program, and we know how Miles has previously embraced new trends . . . .

http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/husker-sports/nebraska-aims-to-set-trend-in-sport-analytics-with-hire/article_e9735fe4-0e32-5bbc-8a9f-b749134c7f56.html

Hasn't Miles already been on record saying that he very much wants the STATS sportVU player tracking cameras and system installed in Hendrix and PBA? The system can collects data from the ball and all players 25 times a second and has endless possibilities for examining spatial data, speed, direction....basically endless possibilities on what can be extracted from the data that is collected. It's the system that is used by the NBA.

[HuskerFever]

 

This could be a huge benefit for the basketball program, and we know how Miles has previously embraced new trends . . . .

http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/husker-sports/nebraska-aims-to-set-trend-in-sport-analytics-with-hire/article_e9735fe4-0e32-5bbc-8a9f-b749134c7f56.html

Hasn't Miles already been on record saying that he very much wants the STATS sportVU player tracking cameras and system installed in Hendrix and PBA? The system can collects data from the ball and all players 25 times a second and has endless possibilities for examining spatial data, speed, direction....basically endless possibilities on what can be extracted from the data that is collected. It's the system that is used by the NBA.

 

 

I remember this discussion. I'm not sure if it was HHC-driven or if Miles said it. But I could definitely see him embracing this to the fullest.

[uneblinstu]

Miles is definitely an analytics guy.

[Red Don]

Great Hire! 

 

http://hailvarsity.com/news/tucker-zeleny-sports-analytics-data-analysis/2015/07/

 

 

Consider Nebraska officially an “early adopter” in the college realm.

 

Zeleny is a home-grown product, hailing from Carleton, Neb. He’s got three degrees from UNL, receiving a B.S. in mathematics in 2010, an M.S. in statistics in 2012 and Zeleny completed his Ph.D in statistics in 2015.

 

 

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This article is from March last year but still has some good information.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/sports/ncaabasketball/sportvu-offers-college-basketball-data-for-those-who-can-afford-it.html?_r=1

 

"College Basketball Data Aplenty for Those Who Can Afford It"

The next wave of technology, data-tracking camera systems that were installed this season in every N.B.A. arena, gained a foothold this season in college basketball with three programs: Duke, Louisville and Marquette. Once this season ends, it could be college basketball’s next arms race.

 

“I’m sure it will be,” Michigan State Coach Tom Izzo said. “It will separate the haves and the have-nots a bit more.”

 

The system, called SportVU, was developed by the sports analysis company Stats L.L.C. with technology whose roots are in the Israeli military. SportVU’s cameras, six in each arena, record data points for everything that moves on the floor — the players, the referees and even the ball — every thirtieth of a second.

[AuroranHusker]

ESPN's Darren Rovell has noticed this trend in college athletics analytics...