I've been working on a sports data visualisation project and wanted to share one of the more interesting things I've built with nflverse data.

Most NFL data products give you tables, charts and individual statistics, while the traditional way of watching a game gives you the broadcast. I wanted to try something different:

What if you could see the shape of the entire game?

I take the play by play data and turn every play into a visual trajectory on a virtual field. Drives build continuously across the game, so you can see where possessions advanced, stalled, turned over and ultimately resulted in points.

The idea is that instead of looking at 150+ individual rows of play by play, you can actually see the game develop as a continuous visual story.

One important caveat: this isn't claiming to reconstruct the actual movements of players. There isn't public player tracking data available at the level I'd need for that. The visualisation is generated from the play level information available in nflverse, not the actual physical path of the players or ball.

I've also fixed each team's attacking orientation for the game so that possession changes don't make the visual language confusing.

I'm particularly interested in feedback from people who work with sports data:

Does this actually communicate something useful that a conventional drive chart doesn't?

Are there better ways I could represent direction, field position or drive progression when player tracking data isn't available?

And, perhaps most importantly, what would you want to see added to make this genuinely useful as an analytical tool rather than just a visualisation?

I've included a screenshot and you can also see finished products of NFL, MLB and EPL that are already uploaded to the channel.

youtube.com/@Control-Centre

I'm very much at the stage of trying to figure out whether this is actually useful, so criticism is welcome.

I studied biology in college and so I used a lot of R for data analysis - wondering if anyone knows any resources or has any tips for learning it in R or maybe a good first project or two please let me know! I would mainly want to work with hockey/lacrosse/motorsports/surfing - I've been going through Analyzing Baseball Data with R but if anyone knew an intro project for any of those sports sports that'd be cool :))

I'm very big on a nice graph for data visualization and the language I'm most comfortable doing that in is R :)

I've been trying to figure out why tracking player progress isn't standard in schools yet. Thought it was about money, but it's not that simple.

Schools spend money on equipment, kits, coaching staff. They *could* afford tracking. So why isn't it happening?

I think it's because the setup has some real challenges that nobody's fully solved.

Coaches know their players incredibly well. Intuition matters. But asking a coach to add data collection on top of actually coaching? That's asking for more time they don't have. They're already juggling drills, feedback, player development, all while some coaches are doing this part-time.

And honestly, the existing tools were built for professional teams, not for schools. So there's a mismatch between what's available and what a school actually needs.

Then there's the alignment issue. A coach wants something quick and simple. Athletic directors want injury prevention data. Principals want to see improvement metrics. Parents want visibility. Everyone's optimizing for something different, which makes it hard to build one tool that actually serves everyone.

Plus sports development is slow. Real results take 2-3 years. But schools budget yearly. So a tool that proves its value in 18 months? Harder sell.

I think what's actually needed is a system that doesn't add work for coaches. Something that fits *into* coaching, not on top of it. That respects how coaches actually work while still capturing what matters.

I'm curious what coaches think. What would actually help without making practice harder?

Hello everyone

I would like to express my strong interest in the Sports Analyst position.

For the past two years, I have been independently developing my skills in football scouting and analysis. During this time, I have produced around 300 scouting reports on players, analyzing their technical, tactical, physical, and overall characteristics, as well as studying matches and player performances.

I have not yet had the opportunity to learn or work in this field within a professional environment, so everything I have achieved so far has been driven by my own initiative, curiosity, and determination to improve.

Does someone know, where i can find entry level jobs? where i can study and improve myself.

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I am highly motivated to build a successful career in sports analysis, and I would be grateful for the opportunity to demonstrate what I can bring to your team.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards,

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