Tom Bliss
@DataWithBliss
Sr. Manager, Football Ops Data Scientist at @NFL. Alum of @Columbia (Data Science) and @UWMadison (Physics/Astronomy). Born / raised in Oakland, CA 🇬🇾🇺🇸.
Come join the Next Gen Stats team! We're hiring seasonal Research Analysts for the 2025 NFL season to help turn insights into stories for broadcast, digital, and social. Apply Now ➡️ job-boards.greenhouse.io/nflcareers/job…
The Washington Commanders were good last year. They were also unusually lucky. I wrote about what that means for this season. Great insight from @DataWithBliss and a group of skeptical players. Full story below 🔽🔽🔽
Looking again for clear eyes and full hearts at the @DallasCowboys. Would you be a good fit or know someone who is? Please help us amplify our search by sharing this message. #DallasCowboys #CowboysNation @NFL Strategic Football Fellow teamworkonline.com/football-jobs/…
The Vikings are hiring a Football Quantitative Methods Associate: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default…
The 49ers are hiring a Football R&D Analyst: career4.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobre…
We're hiring two new positions — great opportunities to work on challenging problems and collaborate with an awesome team! Senior Data Scientist job-boards.greenhouse.io/denverbroncost… Backend Data Engineer job-boards.greenhouse.io/denverbroncost…
The NFL's schedule release is tomorrow night. Relevant to the inevitable discussion -- @DataWithBliss and I looked at the impact of rest difference on game outcomes x.com/StatsbyLopez/s…
New paper with @DataWithBliss -- estimating the impact of rest differential in the NFL. arxiv.org/pdf/2408.10867
The Ravens are hiring a quantitative analyst jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/baltimor…
NFL internship with a side of 🧀 teamworkonline.com/football-jobs/…
In under a month, @KeeganAbdoo and I built the Draft IQ dashboard in Amazon QuickSight — now live on NFL .com. Analyzing every team pre-draft has been an annual tradition. Excited to finally share this research with you all ahead of Thursday night. 🔗 nfl.com/iq
As I adding the final touches of perfection to my presentation I am so excited to run my workshop this Friday for @yaledatascience ! Can’t wait to share, learn and connect with everyone #CSAS25 #SportsAnalytics #DataEngineering #DataScience
With the NFL's Annual Meeting in the books, shout-out to our Football/Health and Safety data and analytics teams for impactful and exciting work. A few highlights:
Our Football Data & Analytics team is looking for a data scientist to come in and help us with optical tracking data, as well as the modeling of other projects in our larger analytics group. Please DM if interested/qualified
It's been a pleasure to work with @sarahmallepalle since she joined the @dallascowboys. She's a tremendous asset to the team and I've learned a lot from our interactions. Great to see her featured in this way! 🎉 youtube.com/watch?v=7TAyjM…
Instructions for folks who want feedback on their 2025 #BigDataBowl Submissions: kaggle.com/competitions/n…
Fun fact: if you make the #BigDataBowl as a finalist you get to take your banner home and keep it. You also get to meet the coolest people in the world and eat steak and shrimp cocktails and have the time of your life. 10/10 would recommend
Been getting a lot of traction so, I figure I'd make a thread... How me and @SBajajSports won the NFL #BigDataBowl '25 (you might want to read this👀) 🧵