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

Effectively Wild: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange Basketball/Football Hockey/Cricket Golf/Tennis Soccer/Rugby Esports/Volleyball NASCAR/Cycling Diversity and Inclusion 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, 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 : Slade, " Give Us a Goal " Audio interstitial : Jim White, " Counting Numbers in the Air " Audio outro : The Temptations, " Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World is Today) " Link to StatsBomb Link to The Double Pivot Podcast Link to The Double Pivot’s Patreon page Link to Mike on the adolescence of soccer stats Link to Mike on soccer’s left-handed-pitcher problem Link to Neil Paine on soccer analytics Link to The Numbers Game Link to Mike on Expected Goals (Part 1) Link to Mike on Expected Goals (Part 2) Link to Deadspin on soccer analytics Link to article on Alex Cora and Liverpool Link to Bill Gerrard’s Winning With Analytics site Link to article on Bill’s work with Saracens Link to article on Bill’s work with Billy Beane Link to Bill on how analytics are changing rugby 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