Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 6hFinding ways to give away all the bobbleheads to people who would appreciate them 120
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i'll be excited to read through all the finished products in january 000
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"small projects, well done" is a recipe for success. several people have placed as HM or finalists with simple methods that are defended well. how to defend a good concept? correlate with public metrics, have it provide another angle to describe a play/event, find year-to-year correlation, etc. 110
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026there's a lot of notebook spam on kaggle. i've made my claims well known to kaggle staff and BDB organizers. it will be difficult for beginners and novices to differentiate between predatory vote-4-vote kagglers and actual, helpful notebooks. try to find a community to share work with. helps a TON 100
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026lots of comments and messages around about how great BDB is for careers (in NFL, sports, and just in general for quantitative or comp sci related roles). that's all still true after 7 years. don't wait for the next one. if you have time, it's not too hard to get going on a cool project 110
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 08/10/20262027 Big Data Bowl is live and this year is finding correlates between NFL Combine data and in-game player tracking data www.kaggle.com/competitions... some personal thoughts as a previous BDB competitor, BDB team sponsor, and BDB content creatorkaggle.comNFL Big Data Bowl 2027Uncover non-obvious linkages between Combine sensor tracking and regular-season NFL game performance 362
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026hi all, one more bump for this. if you know anyone who would be interested in mental performance coaching from a very data-driven approach, please spread this around! 020
Reposted by Nick WanNick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m hiring for a new psychology and cognition coach! If you get excited about cool results like in this thread and want to find ways to apply this back to players before games, in the dugout, and after games, check the posting out here: www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...teamworkonline.comPsychology & Cognition Coach - Cincinnati RedsTitle: Psychology & Cognition CoachDepartment: Baseball Operations – Baseball Analytics - Psychology & CognitionFLSA Status: Salary - ExemptDate Created: 10/28/2025Date Reviewed: 10/01/2026Minimum Req... 11716
Reposted by Nick WanKyle Bland @blandalytics.pitcherlist.com · 02/10/2026"Why doesn't he get whiffs if he has good Stuff?" Current models can be opaque in how they get to their conclusions. To combat this, we have developed a process to illustrate how and why a player's pitches are good/bad/neutral, based on our models. (1/8) 2257
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026- some outliers are removed because they were projected high - the tests are multilingual and are reported to be ~8th grade reading comprehension (US 8th grade) - there are also checks for multicultural interpretations - casting a very wide net for applicants so please don’t be shy applying 010
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026short faq from DMs: - x axis is inverted because the measures are actually the existence of opposite traits (feeling out of control and not feeling in flow). Particularly for flow, I’ve measured it as alpha desynchrony from resting state baseline, which appears in z transform as negative values 100
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m hiring for a new psychology and cognition coach! If you get excited about cool results like in this thread and want to find ways to apply this back to players before games, in the dugout, and after games, check the posting out here: www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...teamworkonline.comPsychology & Cognition Coach - Cincinnati RedsTitle: Psychology & Cognition CoachDepartment: Baseball Operations – Baseball Analytics - Psychology & CognitionFLSA Status: Salary - ExemptDate Created: 10/28/2025Date Reviewed: 10/01/2026Minimum Req... 11716
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m looking to grow this dept with a new coach who is excited about this kind of research and wants to apply these kinds of findings back to the players. If that’s you or if you know someone that fits this, check it out here www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...teamworkonline.comPsychology & Cognition Coach - Cincinnati RedsTitle: Psychology & Cognition CoachDepartment: Baseball Operations – Baseball Analytics - Psychology & CognitionFLSA Status: Salary - ExemptDate Created: 10/28/2025Date Reviewed: 10/01/2026Minimum Req... 130
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But of course: does it play? And it’s cool to see here: more often you’re in flow state (or can get to flow state), the better the projection gains are — and this correlation is stronger than the emotional regulation factor! 120
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There are other aspects of psychology that are much more vague but perhaps more valuable, like flow state. You can measure this via EEG and how much alpha wave you’re producing while doing something (like playing baseball). Not as strong correlation, but seems like strategy usage is helpful 100
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Correlating strategies and the feeling within game is great but everyone will ask “does it help with performance?” Since we collect data, we can compare this back to how much their overall projections change since implementing strategy usage. And while the correlation is weak, it’s not nothing! 120
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I got my PhD in psychology, studying cognitive neuroscience. Using some cog neuro methods in the area of baseball mental performance has been very interesting! Some things are super sensible: positive correlation of feeling “in control” and using emotion regulation strategies in game 150
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A lot of my baseball career has been in analytics but many probably didn’t know I also lead our mental performance group, the psychology and cognition department. This consists of me, several researchers, and coaches who apply our findings back to the players and coaches 1306
Reposted by Nick Wantrevin @trevinflickinger.com · 01/10/2026Mike DeWine signing Ohio’s gas tax holiday on the first day of #WeekWithoutDriving is a good reminder that 1 in 3 Ohioans are nondrivers (including people with disabilities, seniors, and folks who can't afford to drive or choose not to) and will not get any benefit from this bill 1188
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Smell of firewood: 👍 Smell of firewood on my clothes: 👎👎👎 021
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Could say something similar with stockx. In a different lens: stitchfix, blue apron both didn’t go out of their way to become what they became. Requires more capital though. itch.io might be my fav and maybe what you’re getting at? Indie game hosting, open pay model, creator-firstitch.ioDownload the latest indie gamesitch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co... 220
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think reverb was a good example of that, right? Easier music instrument sales with built in insurance and payment clearance. Could have built that site in any era; was built in the 2010s, sold to Etsy, and is getting sold again 110
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This will be my first SfN in almost 10 years. Excited to catch up with everyone 260
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026RIP Chad Gilbert. He’ll be known as the NFG guitarist but I loved Shai Hulud and found them when I was in HS getting into more hardcore music 120
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026They are really doing this interview in the kangaroo hoodies hell yeah 000
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One of my bucket list items is going to the summer koshien. Dudes throwing 400 pitches in 3 days; dudes pitching every day; and top talent were players like ichiro, Ohtani, Darvish to name a few It’s wild stuff. Extreme baseball 040
Reposted by Nick WanSebastian Carl @mrcaseb.com · 09/09/2026PSA: The first game of the year is always a wildcard for #nflverse. Please be patient if you try to access play-by-play data. I am fairly confident that our pipeline works but I can’t guarantee. 283
Reposted by Nick Wantrevin @trevinflickinger.com · 05/09/2026hmm should have realized the “do errands during ohio state games” trick does not work for micro center 1113
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Watching our Dayton club and the lightning in the distance looks like the super ghouls and ghosts lightning in the beginning of the game 110
Reposted by Nick WanSteph @stephy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I think I see a Jimothy on @nickwan.bsky.social’s slides 011
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Maybe this isn’t a chill park. I thought that was the point of parks but what do I know maybe parks got patched or something 010
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Did parks like change??? Why is everyone like so sus of everything at the park? Like “don’t sit on that”, “stop touching that”, “put that down” damn it’s a park do whatever you feel imo 230
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This dog isn’t even named Jackson that was this girl’s kid! This park shit is confusing 100
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yall outside is cool but sitting at a park learning card tricks off my phone feels like wack and there’s bugs and then some dog comes up and says hi and I’m like yo what’s up and then a girl is like “Jackson!” And I’m like yo your mom is calling for you and it just looks at me like 🐶 like okay?? 120
Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It’s so beautiful outside. I tried forcing myself to go out and enjoy taking a walk and I was like “damn this outside shit is cool for like a minute” I got ice cream and I’m back inside 170
