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#BigDataBowl

The analytics competition will allow folks to creatively identify characteristics or visualizations of player movement, either on the offensive or defensive sides of the ball

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The leaderboard competition will use the last 5 weeks of 2025 to identify who builds the best model/algorithm

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Note: Distances calculated using haversine formula (great circle distance). Lines on the map represent the shortest path between points on Earth's surface, even if the alternative route around Earth is shorter.

I know you are haha. Yeah between Athletics (when they move to Vegas) and Mariners one of them would be given quite a bit more travel)

Haha - I do not have a positive/negative opinion of any MLB team!

Also, regardless of whether the Athletics are in Oakland, Sacramento or Las Vegas, they would be in same reimagined division in this optimization.

NOTE -- instead of using the full optimization, a simpler problem (assuming teams like SF/Boston cant be in same division) was used instead -- this almost definitely gives same results as full optimization though.

Details on how these metrics are calculated can be found here: www.datawithbliss.com/analyzing-nf...