Wharton Moneyball13 Maalis 2019

Wharton Moneyball: NFL Draft Trades, the Big Data Bowl, & Baseball Analytics

Show from 3/13/19

In this episode of Wharton Moneyball the whole crew kicks off the show getting into NFL Draft, especially the news about the Giants trading Odell Beckham to the Browns! Then, the NFL hosted it's first Big Data Bowl where students from universities all over the country competed to find new, innovative ways to play the game of football. A Penn team consisting of _____ made it to the finals with a project on receiver routes and optimizing yardage. Two of them join the show to discuss their research. Plus the author of "Big Data Baseball" joins the show to discuss the development of sports science and player stats in MLB. All that and more

Guests:

Andrew Castle (Statistics) and Jake Flancer (Statistics & Decision Processes) - They are both sophomores studying Statistics at the Wharton School. They were part of a team from the Wharton Sports Research Group which was named one of four college-level finalists in the NFL’s first Big Data Bowl, and they presented their findings at the NFL Combine just two weeks ago.

Their research can be found here: https://operations.nfl.com/media/3669/big-data-bowl-penn.pdf

Travis Sawchik – He’s an MLB reporter for FiveThirtyEight. He is the Author of Big Data Baseball and the Co-author of The MVP Machine which is set to be released in June.

His writing can be found here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/travis-sawchik/

Follow him on Twitter: @Travis_Sawchik

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