NFL Big Data Bowl 2027
Uncover non-obvious linkages between Combine sensor tracking and regular-season NFL game performance
Official pageOpen the competition on Kaggle↗
- Effort
- 25–70 hours
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Compute
- CPU only
- Scoring
- Judged
At a glance
Full rules ↗- Scoring
- NFL team analysts and tracking-vendor judges score Football 30%, Data Science 30%…
- Teams
- Up to 5 per team
- Submitting
- Up to 5 a day
- Host
- The National Football League
Is it for you?
Prepare before joining
Beginner fit17/100
Learning value68/100
Who it suits
Participants comfortable analyzing football tracking data and explaining reproducible findings in a public notebook.
What makes it hard
Judges assess football relevance, data science, writing and visualization; modeling accuracy alone is not the objective.
Getting started
Skills to bring
- Python or R data analysis
- Football tracking data interpretation
- Reproducible notebooks and visual communication
We haven't pulled tutorials, data or baselines from the official page yet; the task and the data are there.
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