Sports are increasingly becoming a data-driven pasttime. Baseball has long had sabermetrics, and devotees of analytics, such as Billy Beane of the Oakland A's and Theo Epstein of the Boston Red Sox and now the Chicago Cubs, have used analytical data to develop winning teams. If you follow SB Nation's Bill Connelly, you may be familiar with his advanced stats and how it can be used to analyze football teams.
Now sports analytics is coming to the Huskers with the hiring of Tucker Zeleny, a recent PhD graduate of UNL.
The University of Nebraska Athletic Department has recently added Tucker Zeleny as the Director of Sports Analytics and Data Analysis.