SLU Alum is a finalist in Big Data Bowl Competition
Shane Hauck ’23 is finalist in the National Football League ’s (NFL’s) 2024 data analysis competition, the Big Data Bowl. This year’s competition focused on tackling. Hauck and his team wrote an analysis of NFL tackling entitled “No Edge, No Chance: The Impact of Setting the Edge on Zone Run Plays.” The annual Big Data Bowl is a data analysis competition meant to generate innovative statistical methods in football. “Contestants in each year’s Big Data Bowl compete for prizes ranging from game tickets to cash, including a $100,000 prize for the competition.” Hauck and team are finalists in the Coaching track. They are one of five teams of finalists that will present their work to judges and NFL teams at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, IN on February 28th.
More details about the 2024 Big Data Bowl can be found here:
https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/analytics/big-data-bowl/2024-big-data-bowl-finalists/
Read Hauck and team’s analysis here.
https://www.kaggle.com/code/devinbasley26/no-edge-no-chance?scriptVersionId=158207073
Shane, a 2023 graduate of St. Lawrence University, was part of the first cohort of graduates of St. Lawrence University’s new Data Science major. St. Lawrence, because of strength in their Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Department, is one of only a few liberal arts colleges to offer a degrees in Mathematics, in Computer Science, in Statistics and in Data Science. While at St. Lawrence, Hauck was a member and team captain of the Men’s Soccer Team as well as an All Liberty League Honorable Mention performer in 2022. Shane was also a Sport Studies & Exercise Science minor. Hauck is now enrolled in a Master’s degree program in Applied Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
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