Villanova Sports Analytics Club

Check out this awesome new article, written by the club’s Outreach Chair (@isabellachmil ), highlighting her StatCats analysis to kickoff basketball season!

We have some new articles up on our website! The first, written by former exec member Nick Reed, takes a closer look at the Los Angeles Angels offseason and where they could go from here. Check out his thoughts here: sportsanalyticsatnova.com/baseball/

Junior Nick Grieco (@NickGrieco) used time series techniques to predict the Yankees' 2025 win total based on past seasons' performance. His write-up can be found here: nicholasgrieco.substack.com/p/predicting-t… (4/4)

Just wanted to share a quick analytics update highlighting what some of our members have been working on recently! (1/4)

Junior Amélie Devine (@A_Devine26) completed a project for the NFL Big Data Bowl which used pre-snap information (including player tracking data) to create a model predicting defensive scheme. Her submission can be found here: kaggle.com/code/ameliedev… (3/4)

Sophomore Colin Hofmeister (@chofmeister44) has been developing a Shiny App (website) in R for the Villanova Baseball Team using trackman data, and is continuing work on a Stuff Model to quantify pitcher skill. (2/4)

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Congrats to Isabella Chmil on winning our MNF PickEm competition this semester! The best of 90+ club members that made picks this fall.

It's our last meeting of the semester, and a fan favorite, it's Sports Trivia! Bring your friends and come test your knowledge with free food and more. See you tonight at 7:45pm in Bartley 1001!

Pav's Lock of the Week: Back to Back by George Pavlus sportsanalyticsatnova.com/miscellaneous-…

Hope everyone is ready for the home stretch! Come talk all about the past 2 weeks of sports, including but not limited to NFL, Women’s/Men’s CBB, MLB, MLS, and more (this is our last GBM of the fall, with trivia next week). See you tonight in Bartley 1001 at 7:45pm!

Pav's Lock of the Week: All Hail Altmyer by George Pavlus sportsanalyticsatnova.com/miscellaneous-…

Tonight, join us for our last meeting before Thanksgiving break! Along with general sports discussion (Villanova Basketball, NFL, NHL, etc.) we will have other club updates as well. We’re excited and hope we can see you there!

TONIGHT: Come discuss being a woman in sports! Our first ever VSAC women's forum will contain professional development advice, networking tips, career advice, and more. Bartley 3068 at 7pm today, 11/14.

Pav’s Lock of the Week: Salter Saturday by George Pavlus sportsanalyticsatnova.com/miscellaneous-…

Men's Basketball Week 1 Top 25 by Blake Pearson sportsanalyticsatnova.com/basketball/

The last 2 weeks have been full of crazy events across all sports! Come to Bartley 1001 at 7:45pm today to talk about basketball, football, and everything else. Exec board info will be released too. See you then!

Villanova Men's Basketball Week 1 Review by Anthony Loh sportsanalyticsatnova.com/basketball/

Pav's Lock of the Week: Back Bama by George Pavlus sportsanalyticsatnova.com/miscellaneous-…

No meeting today. Go enjoy the home opener and Go Cats!