Effectively Wild Episode 1475: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Football and Basketball)

Effectively Wild: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange Basketball/Football Hockey/Cricket Golf/Tennis Soccer/Rugby Esports/Volleyball NASCAR/Cycling Diversity and Inclusion In the first installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to ESPN’s Bill Barnwell about football (the American kind) and then ESPN’s Kevin Pelton about basketball (48:43), touching on the origins of sabermetrics-style analysis in each sport, the major challenges, big breakthroughs, and overturned misconceptions, the early adopters, the cutting-edge stats and tech, the level of acceptance within the game, the effects on the spectator experience, the parallels with baseball, and more. Audio intro : Superchunk, " Winter Games " Audio interstitial : Ben Kweller, " Different But the Same " Audio outro : Pernice Brothers, " How Can I Compare " Link to The Hidden Game of Football Link to FiveThirtyEight on the NFL not passing enough Link to FiveThirtyEight on NFL teams running too much on first down Link to Bill Barnwell on teams evaluating quarterbacks Link to Kevin Clark on fourth-down conversion attempts Link to Danny Heifetz on the origins of the NFL analytics movement Link to Clark on the NFL’s analytics revolution Link to Clark on bringing science to the NFL draft Link to Football Outsiders site Link to Kevin Pelton’s bio/archive Link to PER Wikipedia page Link to Pablo Torre and Tom Haberstroh on NBA biometrics Link to Zach Kram on the NBA’s 3-point boom Link to Haberstroh on load management Link to Paolo Uggetti on Kawhi Leonard’s load management Link to FiveThirtyEight RAPTOR projections Link to order The MVP Machine iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source