Data and Science with Glen Wright Colopy is a podcast covering critical scientific reasoning, particularly from a data science / machine learning / statistics perspective. Episodes typically focus on understanding of how to be better scientists and critical thinkers for the practical purpose of being a better data scientists. Previously called: ”Pod of Asclepius”
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Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Michael McRoberts | Football Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions
Michael McRoberts (Championship Analytics Inc.) uses Monte Carlo simulations to provide strategy analytics to college and NFL football teams. Topics include communicating data-driven recommendations, the need to create counterfactual data, and asymmetric decision rewards.
0:00 The challenge of sports analytics
5:00 Analytics recommendations
16:00 Communicating data-driven recommendations
24:35 Vegas Odds & Ancillary Data
30:00 Football is way behind / Data science projects with a "runway"
41:25 Creating experiments and counterfactuals
49:30 Implementing data science insights
56:15 Asymmetric decision rewards
58:50 How to start in sports analytics
1:10:00 Data science vs analytics vs statistics
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