One team, one dream, one ggplot2 color scheme: how a group of strangers won the NFL Big Data Bowl by Asmae Toumi Visit https://rstats.ai/nyr/ to learn more. Abstract: How does a group of strangers with minimal football strategy knowledge go on to win sport’s biggest data science competition during a pandemic? Asmae Toumi will share her and her group’s process, lessons learned, and how they leveraged the tidyverse, tidymodels ecosystem, and other R packages to gain a competitive edge. Bio: Asmae Toumi is the Director of Analytics and Research at PursueCare, a telehealth company specializing in treating substance use disorder and other mental health conditions. By night, she is the editor-in-chief of Hockey-Graphs, a hockey sports analytics blog. She recently won the 2021 NFL Big Data Bowl with her group Twitter: https://twitter.com/asmae_toumi Presented at the 2021 New York R Conference (September 9, 2021)