On this episode of The Football Analytics Show, I talk with Colin Davy, a data scientist at Facebook that runs his own, proprietary golf model. He has also won Jeopardy and the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Hackathon twice.

Among other topics, we discuss:

• How his golf model depends on Markov chains, and he incorporates the course and age in his predictions (6:03)
• Why Colin chooses not to use Shot Link data in his model (13:32)
• How much the course at Augusta matters (19:43)
• Colin’s surprising favorite to win the 2021 Masters (23:25)
• The other markets that Colin likes (24:43)
• Colin’s unique approach to becoming a Jeopardy champion (28:51)

The Jeopardy story is one of my favorites in all time of data science. Check out his full write up here.

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