NFL EndZone Ecosystem Architecture

System-level map of nflendzonePipeline, nflendzoneData, nflendzoneModel, and nflendzoneApp.
nfl
nflverse
cmdstanr
brms
architecture
shiny
Author

Tyler Pollard

Published

February 15, 2026

Modified

February 15, 2026

This page is the evergreen system map. Weekly and implementation updates live in Blog posts.

End-to-End Flow

flowchart LR
  A[nflverse raw data] --> B[nflendzonePipeline]
  B --> C[nflendzoneData release tags]
  C --> D[nflendzoneModel]
  D --> C
  C --> E[nflendzoneApp]

Repository Responsibilities

Repository Primary responsibility Main handoff
nflendzonePipeline ETL, feature engineering, scheduled updates publishes versioned artifacts
nflendzoneData release/tag warehouse serves stable API-like data URLs
nflendzoneModel Bayesian team-strength modeling publishes posterior summaries
nflendzoneApp interactive Shiny/Rhino application consumes summaries for user-facing probabilities

Visual Signals From Weekly Output

Team strength rankings with posterior uncertainty.

Game-level win probability output.

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