Eligibility and key facts
Eligibility to be confirmed The summary below does not confirm your eligibility. Check eligible regions, age, language, and other requirements.
- Who may be interested
- Data science developers, Sports analytics researchers
- Team size
- Individual or team of up to 5
- Location
- Online; invited finalists may present at the NFL Scouting Combine
- Eligible regions
- To be confirmed; online does not imply worldwide eligibility
- Entry fee
- Free
- Prizes and support
- USD 100,000 total: Open USD 45,000, University USD 45,000, and a USD 10,000 Combine presentation award restricted to invited finalists.
All deadlines
Original date: No separate cutoff established by the verified official source.
The time is unconfirmed or the event is cancelled and cannot be added.
Original date: Official Timeline: January 6, 2027, 11:59 PM UTC. API entry/team timestamps at 23:59:59 are retained only in raw evidence.
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About this opportunity
Develop actionable insights for coaches, scouts and front offices under the Combine to NFL Performance theme. Open and University tracks are judged separately; verify additional University-track conditions before entering that track.
Rules and deliverables
Participation rules
- A Kaggle account is required. Entrants must be at least the older of 18 or the local age of majority; exceptions require sponsor approval and appropriate guardian consent.
- Residents of Crimea, the so-called DNR/LNR, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, and persons or entity representatives subject to US export controls or sanctions are excluded.
- Use one account per participant. No private sharing of code or data outside teams. Follow data licensing, daily submission and team-merger rules.
- The rules state no purchase is necessary to enter. Optional computing or third-party tools may have separate costs.
- Participants under 18 may enter with guardian consent but cannot receive a prize. Identity verification may be required.
- Competition data uses CC BY-NC 4.0 for non-commercial use. Winners must deliver reproducible code/documentation and the specified open-source license. Student status alone does not establish all University-track eligibility.
What to prepare
- A tracking-data writeup explicitly linking Combine movement to NFL performance, at most 2,000 words and fewer than 10 tables or figures.
- Readable Markdown, embedded visuals and an attached public Kaggle Notebook; put most code in an appendix or linked notebook.
Sources
- Source platform
- Kaggle
- Source domain
- www.kaggle.com
The organizer’s published schedule and rules take precedence.