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Podcast: Professor Edward Egros on NFL, MLB betting

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Edward Egros, a professor at Pepperdine University and co-host of BetQL Daily, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include:

  • His work at NFL Next Gen Stats and working on NFL broadcasts (3:15)
  • Next Gen insights on running backs (14:29)
  • Next Gen insights on wide receivers (18:47)
  • MLB rule changes (26:22)
  • Strike out props (32:00)
  • Surprise prediction for the 2023 NFL season (44:00)
  • Geno Smith and the Seattle Seahawks (50:26)

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Podcast: Professor Adi Wyner on sports analytics

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Professor Adi Wyner of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania joins the show for a wide ranging conversations. He has a math degree from Yale University and PhD in Statistics from Stanford University. Highlights include:

  • His first influence in sports analytics at Stanford (3:35)
  • His opera singing career after graduate school (7:50)
  • The optimal number of brackets to submit to a March Madness pool (12:53)
  • Better baseball player projections (23:45)

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Podcast: Will Courchene on predictive golf analytics, US Open 2023

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Will Courchene, founder of Data Golf, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include:

  • PGA, LIV merger (13:29)
  • How the Data Golf predictions work (23:52)
  • Top contenders to win the US Open (30:45)
  • Scottie Scheffler and the randomness of putting (31:47)
  • Brooks Koepka and the majors bump (35:30)
  • The other golfer that excels at majors (42:10)
  • Jon Rahm (47:10)

This was a really fun conversation on many levels. To listen here:

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Podcast: John Sears on sports analytics

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John Sears, a special advisor to the Los Angeles Dodgers, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. John has a graduate degree from Stanford and has also worked for the Philadelphia 76ers. Highlights include:

  • His first experience with applied math (7:48)
  • Working at the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis (12:32)
  • The decision to go to grad school (19:00)
  • The latest baseball data sets that John and the Dodgers are hiring quants to work on (26:09)
  • The 2015 NBA draft with Philadelphia (33:50)
  • Working with the Minnesota Timberwolves and match up problems (45:18)
  • How to break into sports analytics (52:09)

The story about the 2015 NBA draft is an incredible lesson in predictive analytics, and I highly recommend listening to the seven minutes starting at 33:50. To listen here, click on the right pointing triangle.

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Podcast: The Pick Report

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Interceptions play a critical role in football. However, randomness plays a big role, which makes these critical plays difficult to predict.

This episode describes my research into how to predict interceptions. The narrative starts in football but then ventures into some ideas about skill vs luck from Michael Maubossian’s book The Success Equation. Interceptions are also compared with three pointers in basketball.

This was originally released as a paid product, but now I am putting it out there for free. To listen here, click on the right pointing triangle:

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