The transfer portal has changed how quickly a college football team can change. The data used to evaluate players, forecast seasons, and inform fans has to keep up.
Ron Yurko, Director of the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center, explores how analytics are helping modernize the Heisman race and make player evaluation more inclusive across positions. He discusses why transfer activity makes college football harder to predict, how uncertainty should shape team forecasts, and what students need to understand about sports betting and prediction markets.
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