Defensive Line Value with the Winner of the SIS Football Analytics Challenge
Off The Charts Football Podcast
English - August 06, 2020 21:24 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsSports sports football nfl ncaa scouting analytics gridiron analysis sis info Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Former NFL scout Matt Manocherian (@mattmano) of Sports Info Solutions and football analytics pioneer Aaron Schatz (@FO_ASchatz) of Football Outsiders (@fboutsiders) welcome Emmett Kiernan - winner of the SIS Football Analytics Challenge - to the show. The group opens with a brief discussion about opt-outs in the NFL (0:39) before diving into Emmett's contest-winning project, beginning with his background and how he got into analytics (2:37), an explanation of his submission and what led him to pursue the angle he took (9:48), the modeling he decided to use (16:40), his ultimate findings (22:43), an interesting outlier (25:30), and how the findings agree with what we know about analytics (27:55).
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