Wharton Moneyball: Sports Info Solutions, Football Analytics, & NBA Team Stats

Show from 6/19/19Hosts Adi Wyner and Shane Jensen fly solo in this episode of Wharton Moneyball! Hear them get into the Stanley Cup, win probability in MLB, the NBA Finals and much more. Then they talk to the director of football and research at Sports Info Solutions about why we're seeing more passing in football and how analytics can ultimately save the game from dying out. Plus returning guest Neil Paine of FiveThirtyEight comes on to go through the headlines from the NBA Finals to baseball. Statisticians are the new cool kids on the block in this episode.Guests:Matt Manocherian - Director of Football and Research at Sports Info Solutions. He is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU and a former Scout for the Saints and Browns. You can hear Matt on his Podcast with Aaron Schatz, the “Off The Charts Football Podcast.”Podcast: https://offthechartsfootball.libsyn.com/Twitter: @mattmanoNeil Paine - Senior sportswriter for FiveThirtyEight. He previously wrote for ESPN Insider, The New York Times and Sports-Reference.com and consulted for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks.Twitter: @Neil_PaineArticles: https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/neil-paine/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.