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Paul Sabin - ESPN Senior Sports Analytics Specialist
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English - January 08, 2020 14:17 - 37 minutes - 69 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSoccer Sports Football Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Paul Sabin is a Senior Sports Analytics Specialist at ESPN, where he works
on various metrics as part of ESPN’s Sports Analytics group. In this
episode, Paul will discuss…
- What his job entails at ESPN
- The college football title game, through the lens of metrics like Total
QBR and Football Power Index
- Creating the Player Impact Rating
- Challenges of capturing a human element in ESPN’s College Playoff
Predictor
- Communicating uncertainty
- Midseason takeaways from ESPN’s Basketball Power Index
- How an engineering class pushed him toward a stats career
- Advice for people entering the sports analytics industry
- Being a Nationals fan during their World Series run
Show links- Twitter: @SabinAnalytics, @ESPNStatsInfo
- ESPN’s Sports Analytics home page
- Football Power Index
- College football Total QBR
- College football Player Impact Rating
- Basketball Power Index
- Midseason BPI takeaways
Paul Sabin is a Senior Sports Analytics Specialist at ESPN, where he works on various metrics as part of ESPN’s Sports Analytics group. In this episode, Paul will discuss…
- What his job entails at ESPN
- The college football title game, through the lens of metrics like Total QBR and Football Power Index
- Creating the Player Impact Rating
- Challenges of capturing a human element in ESPN’s College Playoff Predictor
- Communicating uncertainty
- Midseason takeaways from ESPN’s Basketball Power Index
- How an engineering class pushed him toward a stats career
- Advice for people entering the sports analytics industry
- Being a Nationals fan during their World Series run
Show links
- Twitter: @SabinAnalytics, @ESPNStatsInfo
- ESPN’s Sports Analytics home page
- Football Power Index
- College football Total QBR
- College football Player Impact Rating
- Basketball Power Index
- Midseason BPI takeaways
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