On behalf of NFL Data & Analytics, thanks to all who participated in this year’s Big Data Bowl. This year’s competition set a Big Data Bowl competition record for participants – we are grateful and appreciative of all the folks who took time to analyze pre-snap tendencies!
The 2025 Big Data Bowl will culminate with an in-person event at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on February 26th. Each of the finalists will be competing for an additional $12,500 in prize money, and the competition will feature a keynote discussion from Dr. Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes.
Congratulations to the following five Finalists of the 2025 Big Data Bowl, the five Semi-Finalists, as well as to the Honorable Mention group. Our staff will connect with the finalists next week to share additional information.
Finalists
$12,500 and an invitation to present at the Scouting Combine:
Coaching Track
Undergraduate Track
- Smit Bajaj, Vishakh Sandwar (New York University)
- Lindsay Fleishman (University of Georgia), Daniel Soriano (University of California, Davis), Eric Steinberg (Emory University), Lucca Ferraz (Rice University)
Metric Track
Semi-finalists
$5,000
- Andrew Akers
- Jonah Lubin, Charles Wells (Rice University)
- Quang Nguyen, Ron Yurko
- Matt Polsky (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Abhi Varadarajan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Honorable Mentions
- Dan Bickelhaupt
- Miguel Duarte
- Nick Gurol, Shaan Chanchani, Ben Wolbransky, Tim Bryan
- Luke Neuendorf
- Randy Short
- Guy Haiby, Roee Haiby (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Rachael Kaplan (Duke University), Madalyn Elwood (Buena Vista University)
- Shekhar Shah, Jack Sullivan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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