Effectively Wild Episode 1481: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (NASCAR and Cycling)

Effectively Wild: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange Basketball/Football Hockey/Cricket Golf/Tennis Soccer/Rugby Esports/Volleyball NASCAR/Cycling Diversity and Inclusion In the sixth installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to Motorsports Analytics founder and The Athletic writer David Smith about NASCAR and then former Garmin-Sharp and Team Sky analyst Robby Ketchell about cycling (47:48), 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, plus a postscript on Bucky Dent , Rich Hill , the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, and ESPN Bat Track. Audio intro : Grateful Dead, " The Race is On " Audio interstitial : Yo La Tengo, " The Race is on Again " Audio outro : George Harrison, " Faster " Link to David Smith’s archive at The Athletic Link to Motorsports Analytics site Link to Positive Regression Podcast Link to David’s 2019 analytical takeaways Link to David on Erik Jones Link to David on driver stat darlings Link to David on crew chief stat darlings Link to David on metrics that do or don’t matter Link to article on Andrew Maness and NASCAR Link to article about Robby and Team Sky Link to article on Team Sky’s use of data Link to article on big data in racing Link to article about technology in racing Link to article about Chris Froome’s power data Link to article about technology in racing Link to article about using power data to detect doping Link to article about Team Sky and doping Link to another article about Team Sky and doping Link to article about Robby and Kipchoge Link to Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method Wiki Link to ESPN broadcast featuring Bat Track Link to story about Bat Track 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