Performance Analyst

The Performance Analyst will be part of an integrated Performance Team, consisting of strength and conditioning, sport science, rehabilitation, performance therapy, and nutrition. The analyst’s main duties will be extracting, transforming, and analyzing data from multiple data streams – geospatial, kinetic, kinematic, medical, and qualitative – for the purposes of injury-risk profiling and performance optimization. 

Responsibilities:

• Use machine learning and statistical models/methods to improve the team’s decision making to reduce injuries and improve performance
• Develop and implement data analysis, data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
• Organize complex data sources related to player tracking and load optimization
• Process, cleanse and verify integrity of data used for analysis
• Clearly and concisely communicate the results of your work to Performance Team

Qualifications:

 

• Must have experience with Tableau, Shiny, d3.js
• Comfortable performing ETL (extract/transform/load) tasks, data wrangling, data cleansing and feature engineering
• Experience modelling rare events and dealing with sparse or noisy data sets
• Be able to explain the pros and cons of the chosen model as well as alternative, variable importance and goodness of fit criteria