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

Effectively Wild: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange Basketball/Football Hockey/Cricket Golf/Tennis Soccer/Rugby Esports/Volleyball NASCAR/Cycling Diversity and Inclusion 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, 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 : Wild Fire, " Video Warrior " Audio interstitial : Of Montreal, " Spike the Senses " Audio outro : Guided By Voices, " The Rally Boys " Link to Ben on the Wild West of esports stats Link to Ben on the Overwatch meta Link to Ben on the Player Impact Rating in Overwatch Link to Compete on big data in esports Link to Vice article on Tim Link to VentureBeat article on Tim Link to Blitz Esports article on Tim Link to Tim on founding Shadow Link to Oracle’s Elixir Link to Part 1 of Tim’s LCS 2020 power rankings Link to Part 2 of Tim’s LCS 2020 power rankings Link to Ben on the origins of StarCraft Link to Volleymetrics page at Hudl Link to SportTechie on volleyball analytics Link to FiveThirtyEight on volleyball metrics Link to article about BYU volleyball 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