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Wharton Moneyball

Sports is a game of numbers. Wharton experts Eric Bradlow, Shane Jensen, Cade Massey, and Adi Wyner team up to tackle the world of sports, from current events to longstanding issues such as: What sports streaks are the most impressive? How do you rank the best players? Can athletes be compared across sports? Moneyball explains how decision-makers in the game can avoid the common mistakes and embrace the data. Episodes are recorded at the Wharton School.

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3/7/18 Wharton Moneyball: Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Mar 07, 2018

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In this episode of Wharton Moneyball host Cade Massey takes listeners through a slew of interviews he had with big names in sports analytics at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. He covers everything from betting and the inter working of teams to innovation and the future of sports analytics. Check it out!Guests:Mina Kimes, ESPN (00:00)Ben Alomar, ESPN (18:00)Sandy Weil, head of analytics, Kroenke Sports (27:17)Kurt Lacob, Assitant GM Warriors (39:29)Chad Millman, Action Network (53:12)Jeff Ma, Twitter (1:05:29)Dean Oliver, Basketball on Paper (1:13:14)Brian Burke, ESPN (1:30:40)

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2/28/18 Wharton Moneyball Feb 25, 2018

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In this episode of Wharton Moneyball our hosts have a post 2018 Winter Olympics review, discuss the NFL draft, talk MLB forecasting, and much more. Plus a discussion with American freestyle skiier Nick Goepper about his silver medal at the most recent games and his outlook for the future of the olympics. The National Recruiting Director & Editor for SBNation.com Bud Elliot also joins the show to shed light on college football recruiting. Take a listen!Guests:Bud Elliott - The National Recruiting Director & Editor for SBNation.com. He holds degrees from Alabama and Florida State, both of which have fan bases that are obsessed with recruiting.Nick Goepper - Two-time Olympian, and most recently Silver Medalist in Men’s Ski Slope. Nick is 24 years old out of Lawrenceburg, Indiana and brought a medal back to America from Pyeongchang

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2/21/18 Wharton Moneyball Feb 21, 2018

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This edition of Wharton Moneyball covers everything from the 2018 Winter Olympics to sports betting and high stakes poker. Our hosts delve into a March Madness preview and get all the details about Ken Pomeroys innovative analytics. They also get the scoop on famous poker player Annie Duke's strategy as well as advice on controlling your emotions and having a commitment to accuracy.Guests:Annie Duke is a professional poker player who won the inaugural WSOP Tournament of Champions defeating ten World Champion opponents and has had career winnings exceeding $4Millon. She is also the author of the new book “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts.”Ken Pomeroy is the creator of a popular college basketball website and statistical archive, kenpom.com. His website includes his College Basketball Ratings, tempo-free statistics for every NCAA men's Division I basketball team, with archives dating back to the 2002 season, as well as a blog about current college basketball. You can follow Ken on Twitter at @KenPomeroy.

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2/14/18 Wharton Moneyball Feb 14, 2018

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Guest:John Templon - An investigative data journalist for BuzzFeed News where he has reported on figure skating, tennis, immigration and politics among other things. He joined BuzzFeed in 2014 from Chicago-based technology startup Narrative Science.

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2/7/18 Wharton Moneyball Feb 07, 2018

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Guest:Oliver Miller-Farrell is the Business Development Director of North America at Perform GroupDerek Belch is the CEO and Co-Founder of STRIVR

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1/31/18 Wharton Moneyball Jan 31, 2018

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Guests:Gill Alexander – Host of “A Numbers Game” on SiriusXM Radio’s VSiNTodd Steussie – Former All Pro Offensive Lineman

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1/24/18 Wharton Moneyball Jan 24, 2018

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Guests:Adam Kingsbury - Head Coach Canadian Olympic Women’s Curling TeamPeter Keating - Senior Writer at ESPN the Magazine

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1/17/18 Wharton Moneyball Jan 17, 2018

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Guests:Neil Paine - A longtime friend of the show as well as a Senior Writer and General Editor at FiveThirtyEight. He covers a wide range of sports, with a focus on sabermetrics and statistical analysis and can he can be foundNeil Greenberg – Statistics Reporter at the Washington Post. Neil is a staff writer with The Washington Post whose beat is sports analytics. You can find his analysis and insight on the Fancy Stats blog where he covers all pro sports as well as college football and basketball. He also hosts “Crashing the Net”

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1/10/18 Wharton Moneyball Jan 10, 2018

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Guests:Michael Salfino is a sports analyst for Meadowlands Media Group whose appears in the Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight and YahooIan Levy is the senior NBA editor for FanSided.com and the man behind the curtain at The Step Back and Nylon Calculus

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1/3/18 Wharton Moneyball Jan 03, 2018

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Guests:Steven Godfrey - Senior reporter for SB Nation based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also the co-host of the college football podcast, “Podcast Ain’t Played Nobody” and you can follow him on Twitter @38Godfrey.Nathan Jahnke - Director of Analytics at Pro Football Focus where he has worked for over seven years. As the Director of Analytics, he developed the methodology of turning the raw grades PFF collects into 0-100 season and game grades as well as some of the statistics used at PFF

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