Michael McRoberts | Football Analytics and Data-Driven De...

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Michael McRoberts | Football Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions Michael McRoberts (Championship Analytics Inc.) uses Monte Carlo simulations to provide strategy analytics to college and NFL football teams. Topics include communicating data-driven recommendations, the need to create counterfactual data, and asymmetric decision rewards. 0:00 The challenge of sports analytics 5:00 Analytics recommendations 16:00 Communicating data-driven recommendations 24:35 Vegas Odds & Ancillary Data 30:00 Football is way behind / Data science projects with a "runway" 41:25 Creating experiments and counterfactuals 49:30 Implementing data science insights 56:15 Asymmetric decision rewards 58:50 How to start in sports analytics 1:10:00 Data science vs analytics vs statistics

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Michael McRoberts | Football Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions Michael McRoberts (Championship Analytics Inc.) uses Monte Carlo simulations to provide strategy analytics to college and NFL football teams. Topics include communicating data-driven...

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