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Podcast: Seth Walder on football analytics at ESPN

By Dr. Ed Feng 1 Comment

On this episode of The Football Analytics Show, I’m joined by Seth Walder, who writes about football analytics for ESPN. Among other topics, we discuss:

  • How the Football Power Index (FPI) works, both for college football and NFL (5:52)
  • The surprising player that matters to NFL FPI (12:40)
  • The college football team that has vastly outperformed preseason expectations (17:07)
  • How ESPN uses NFL Next Gen Stats that tracks the motion of every player (22:42)
  • The pass rusher tearing it up for Tampa Bay based on tracking data (29:18)

Seth is the person at ESPN that takes the work on the analytics group and makes it accessible to the public. He offered lots of fascinating insights.

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Filed Under: College Football, National Football League, Podcast

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  1. Lawrence says

    October 2, 2019 at 11:48 am

    Thanks for putting the time stamps on the highlights of the podcast.

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