Hot Takedown

Hot Takedown is the weekly sports podcast from FiveThirtyEight. On it, the crew uses numbers to dissect the week in sports, taking down some silly hot takes in the process.

Latest Episodes:

Hot Takedown - A Crash Course In Pitching Stats Aug 25, 2015

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It's a new edition of stat school! Kate Fagan, Neil "Stat Man" Paine, and Chadwick Matlin look at the evolution of pitching stats through the ages.

Hot Takedown - A Statsy Premier League Preview; The NFL Gets Microchips Aug 18, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss the state of soccer analytics, preview the new Premier League season, and discuss the player tracking coming to the NFL.

Hot Takedown - We Tell John Starks His Advanced Stats, Streaking Blue Jays Aug 11, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin celebrate John Starks' 50th birthday by talking to the Knicks legend about his game, through the lends of advanced stats.

Hot Takedown - Rousey The Outlier, MLB Trades, Track Doping Aug 04, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin look at Ronda Rousey's fighting dominance, introduce a new metric to measure MLB trades, and the stunning data on doping in track.

Hot Takedown - Measuring Gender, Boston Says No, Soccer Woes Jul 28, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss the blurring gender lines in sports, why no one wants to host the Olympics, and the U.S. men's soccer loss to Jamaica.

Hot Takedown - Unstoppable Greinke, The Greatest Basketball Season Ever, And Baseball Brain Data Jul 21, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss Zack Greinke's scoreless inning streak, Elena Delle Donne's amazing basketball season, and brain data for baseball.

Hot Takedown - A Special Stat-School Edition Jul 14, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss three ways to measure batting: batting average, OPS (on-base plus slugging), wRC+ (Weighted Runs Created).

Hot Takedown - The Greatest Dynasty Of All, NBA Free Agency, and All Star Baseball Jul 07, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss whether U.S. women's national soccer team is a dynasty, review NBA free agency and turn to the MLB All Star game.

Hot Takedown - Women's World Cup, Wimbledon, And Crazy Free Agency Jun 30, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss the U.S. women's national team lineup, preview Wimbledon and discuss the weirdness of the NBA's free agency.

What's The Point Teaser - Guest: Neil deGrasse Tyson Jun 26, 2015

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FiveThirtyEight has a new podcast! Here's part of the first episode of What's The Point -- small interviews about big data. Like what you hear? Find the full episode on iTunes

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