Effectively Wild Episode 1478: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Soccer and Rugby)

12/29/19 • -1 min

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

In the fourth installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to StatsBomb managing editor Mike L. Goodman about soccer and then professor and soccer/rugby analyst Dr. Bill Gerrard about rugby (27:20), touching on the origins of sabermetrics-style analysis in each sport, [...]

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Effectively Wild Episode 1477: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Tennis and Golf)

In the third installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to Tennis Abstract founder Jeff Sackmann about tennis and then Every Shot Counts author Mark Broadie about golf (39:17), touching on the origins of sabermetrics-style analysis in each sport, the major [...]

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Effectively Wild Episode 1479: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Esports and Volleyball)

In the fifth installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to ESports One Head of Esports Data Science Tim Sevenhuysen about esports and then Volleymetrics founder Giuseppe Vinci about volleyball (43:25), touching on the origins of sabermetrics-style analysis in each sport, [...]