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

Effectively Wild: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange Basketball/Football Hockey/Cricket Golf/Tennis Soccer/Rugby Esports/Volleyball NASCAR/Cycling Diversity and Inclusion 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 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 : Simon Love, " Tennis Fan " Audio interstitial : Caravan, " Golf Girl " Audio outro : Cream, " Anyone for Tennis " Link to Tennis Abstract Link to Tennis Abstract blog Link to The Tennis Abstract Podcast Link to Hidden Game of Tennis Link to Jeff Sackmann’s Hardball Times archive Link to 2019 ESPN article on analytics in tennis Link to FiveThirtyEight on aging in tennis Link to Part 1 of SportTechie tennis analytics series Link to Part 2 of SportTechie tennis analytics series Link to Part 3 of SportTechie tennis analytics series Link to Every Shot Counts Link to Mark on Tiger’s consecutive rounds streak Link to video about Mark at The Athletic Link to 2018 Golf.com feature on Mark Link to story on analytics use in the Presidents Cup Link to Golfweek on golf analytics Link to SportTechie on Shotlink Plus Link to article about Strokes Gained and pressure Link to article about technology and golf scores Link to SI on the golf driving distance debate 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