Effectively Wild Episode 1476: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Hockey and Cricket)

Effectively Wild: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange Basketball/Football Hockey/Cricket Golf/Tennis Soccer/Rugby Esports/Volleyball NASCAR/Cycling Diversity and Inclusion In the second installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to Evolving-Hockey.com’s Josh and Luke Younggren about hockey and then writer, commentator, and team analyst Jarrod Kimber about cricket (57:13), 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 : Neil Young, " When Worlds Collide " Audio interstitial : Guided By Voices, " Your Cricket is Rather Unique " Audio outro : Jethro Tull, " Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day " Link to Evolving-Hockey Link to Evolving-Hockey’s Patreon page Link to the Younggrens’ NHL WAR model Link to Stat Shot Link to Grantland article on hockey’s “Summer of Analytics” Link to FiveThirtyEight on the costs of hockey’s analytics boom Link to FiveThirtyEight on pulling the goalie Link to article on the NHL’s faulty shot-location data Link to article on a fix for the NHL’s faulty shot-location data Link to Jarrod on cricket fielding metrics Link to Jarrod on applying data to cricket Link to Jarrod on T20 team scoring Link to Jarrod on right-left pairs in cricket Link to “Smash Factor” explainer Link to article about “Smash Factor” use on Boxing Day Link to Baseball Prospectus on “Hot Spot” in the 2011 World Series Link to video of “Hot Spot” on a 2011 World Series broadcast 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