Sideline Lab
An interactive football-play designer that simulates each play a thousand times.
- Solo project
- 2026
- Independent project
Key features
- Editable routes and 1,000-repetition simulations
- Outcome distributions with controls for coverage, down and distance, weather and execution errors
Architecture
Gradient-boosted models trained on historical NFL plays drive outcome and yardage sampling, with chronological splits, leakage prevention, log-loss and Brier evaluation, and probability calibration.