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Oct 31, 2020 1 hr 3 min

How often does the best team win with Michael Lopez

from Open Source Sports Hosted by Ron Yurko

We discuss 'How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport' with Michael Lopez. Michael Lopez (@StatsbyLopez) is the Director of Football Data and Analytics at the National Football League and a Lecturer of Statistics and Research Associate at Skidmore College. At the National Football League, his work centers on how to use data to enhance and better understand the game of football. For additional references mentioned in the show: NESSIS 2017 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb_wpn4IvE CMSAC 2017 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owOpU_diCVI 'teamcolors' package by Ben Baumer (@BaumerBen) and Gregory J. Matthews (@StatsInTheWild) Mike's tutorial posts on the paper's modeling framework: https://statsbylopez.netlify.app/post/a-state-space-model-to-evaluate-sports-teams/ Follow Tom Bliss (@DataWithBliss) and check out his presentation at UCSAS20 Dan Cervone's archived 'Win Probability Probabilities' post: http://web.archive.org/web/20200808064442/http://xyresearch.com/posts/win-probability-probabilities with code available here https://github.com/dcervone/winProb Big Data Bowl 2021: https://www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-data-bowl-2021

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