Brian Burke, founder of the popular website Advanced Football Analytics and an early pioneer in football analytics, joined ESPN as a sports data scientist in June 2015. As a member of ESPN Analytics, Burke is expanding upon his previous work to ensure ESPN has the best-in-class football analytics. His recent accomplishments include Receiver Tracking Metrics,...
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Brian Burke, founder of the popular website Advanced Football Analytics and an early pioneer in football analytics, joined ESPN as a sports data scientist in June 2015. As a member of ESPN Analytics, Burke is expanding upon his previous work to ensure ESPN has the best-in-class football analytics. His recent accomplishments include Receiver Tracking Metrics, the widely successful Pass Block and Run Block Win Rate metrics and other models based on player tracking data. Burke founded AdvancedFootballAnalytics.com in 2007, where he pioneered the development of metrics like Expected Points and Win Probability, which remain the core tools for analysis in football. Burke was a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate and other outlets. A regular speaker at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, he also previously worked as an analytics consultant for multiple NFL teams and supplied statistics and analytics insights to NBC Sports and ESPN The Magazine. Before entering the world of sports analytics, Burke had a distinguished career as an officer and aviator with the United States Navy as an F/A-18 carrier pilot. He flew numerous combat missions and was awarded the Air Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, and numerous other personal and unit commendations. Originally from Baltimore, Burke graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1993. He attended the Naval Postgraduate School and returned to Annapolis as an instructor. After leaving the Navy, Burke worked as a defense contractor, serving as a strategy and tactics expert and then as a business unit director before launching Advanced Football Analytics. He earned a masters degree in Operations Research from George Mason University and teaches there as adjunct faculty. When not analyzing football and other sports, Burke competes in triathlons and takes his car to the track. He resides with his family in Reston, Virginia.
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Real-Time Change/Risk Management: How NFL In-Game Decision Making Concepts Equip the Agile Risk/Compliance Leader (plus solving football's legendary 4th down problem)
From the former Navy fighter pilot and current ESPN analyst who upended 100 years of the status quo around managing real-time risk, Brian Burke shares lessons learned from sports for risk & compliance leaders working ...more
From the former Navy fighter pilot and current ESPN analyst who upended 100 years of the status quo around managing real-time risk, Brian Burke shares lessons learned from sports for risk & compliance leaders working to better adapt to change. As an analytics consultant for several NFL teams, Brian performed various risk assessment and compliance functions including reviewing all the decisions that were made. Today, he draws from that and many other sports experiences to add lessons learned to his talk. Brian uses humor while engaging the audience, and his overall style is narrative (trying to make talks into a story with a beginning, middle and end) with vibrant visuals without any text to read. The story of how football’s 4th down problem was solved is a focus for this talk. It involves the (in)famous 4th and 2 decision by Bill Belichick and takes off from there. Brian was personally in the center of the controversy due to my analysis in the NYT. The talk would describe how ESPN and the NFL teams themselves actually do the analysis during games today, which is somewhat related to his experience as a fighter pilot as well. The audience would learn from Brian's real-life entertaining examples drawn from his experience at the center of the analytics revolution in the NFL, and his relevant experiences as a fighter pilot. They'd leave with a framework for analyzing data to make real-time, high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, that can also account for the human element.
Brian adds humor to his talks to engage the audience and his overall style is narrative (trying to make talks into a story with a beginning, middle and end) with vibrant visuals without any text to read. The story of how football’s 4th down problem was solved is a focus for this talk. It involves the (in)famous 4th and 2 decision by Bill Belichick and takes off from there. Brian was personally in the center of the controversy due to my analysis in the NYT. The talk would describe how ESPN and the NFL teams themselves actually do the analysis during games today, which is somewhat related to his experience as a fighter pilot as well. The audience would learn from Brian's real-life entertaining examples drawn from his experience at the center of the analytics revolution in the NFL, and his relevant experiences as a fighter pilot. They'd leave with a framework for analyzing data to make real-time, high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, that can also account for the human element.
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How NFL In-Game Decision Making Concepts Can Work for You (plus solving football's legendary 4th down problem)
Brian Burke adds humor to his talks to engage the audience and his overall style is narrative (trying to make talks into a story with a beginning, middle and end) with vibrant visuals without any ...more
Brian Burke adds humor to his talks to engage the audience and his overall style is narrative (trying to make talks into a story with a beginning, middle and end) with vibrant visuals without any text to read. The story of how football’s 4th down problem was solved is a focus for this talk. It involves the (in)famous 4th and 2 decision by Bill Belichick and takes off from there. Brian was personally in the center of the controversy due to my analysis in the NYT. The talk would describe how ESPN and the NFL teams themselves actually do the analysis during games today, which is somewhat related to his experience as a fighter pilot as well. The audience would learn from Brian's real-life entertaining examples drawn from his experience at the center of the analytics revolution in the NFL, and his relevant experiences as a fighter pilot. They'd leave with a framework for analyzing data to make real-time, high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, that can also account for the human element.
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