Bruin Sports Analytics

UCLA's student-run sports analytics organization. Research, tools, and analysis across five sports.

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Our Work

Our sports teams

Each team focuses on one sport, from baseball to tennis.

Featured work

Featured projects

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Tool

NFL OT 4th Down Decision Engine

July 30, 2026Football · 2025-26

A decision-support tool that recommends whether NFL coaches should go for it, punt, or kick a field goal on 4th down in overtime — trained on 350,000+ plays from 2016–2024.

PythonXGBoostReact
Consulting

UCLA Women's Basketball Transfer Intelligence Report

March 15, 2026Basketball · 2025-26

An interactive five-tab dashboard built for UCLA Women's Basketball that maps transfer portal movement, compares first-year transfer vs. freshman on-court impact, and tracks career development across 8,300 freshman seasons and 1,354 transfer arrivals in Power 5 programs.

PythonPandasNetlify
Outcomes

Where our members go

UCLA Athletics
Seattle Mariners
Miami Dolphins
OKC Thunder
PFF
Google
Amazon
Oracle
IBM
Coinbase
Palo Alto Networks
Nokia
Rocket Lab
Lucid
Valorant
John Deere
Paramount
Conagra Brands
Goldman Sachs
Bloomberg
Balyasny Asset Management
Graham Partners
Pacific Life
McKinsey & Company
PwC
Deloitte
Altman Solon
EY-Parthenon
UCLA Anderson
MIT
Harvard
Columbia
NYU Courant
What's next

Upcoming events

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recruitment

Fall Recruitment Info Session

Meet current members, see project examples, and learn how applications work.

Wed, Sep 30, 1:00 AM UCLA campus, room TBA
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workshop

Sports Data Cleaning Workshop

A hands-on workshop for turning messy play-by-play data into analysis-ready tables.

Wed, Oct 7, 12:30 AM Data Theory Lab
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