Interview with Jake Stone of Simple Sabermetrics & Director of Ops & Player Dev at Penn State

On this episode we have with us Jake Stone from Simple Sabermetrics. Not to be confused with Justin Stone a mistake that many including myself have made. But if you don’t know Jake you should he is also the Director of Operations and Player Development at Penn State. Today we explore with Jake his youtube channel focused around the new advances in player development and how he utilizes technology at Penn State to help his players. Jake has also put together an analytics department for Penn State’s team as well as oversees their student managers and we dive into how he set that up and what it might look like for other programs to set up their own analytics departments.