HeyJaredWharton 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?
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Is this NFL season more wide open than it appears? (opens the original)
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Is this NFL season more wide open than it appears? Brian Burke, Sports Data Scientist at ESPN, and Kevin Cole, Data Scientist at PFF, use football analytics to examine the season ahead. Burke explains how tracking data is changing the way teams measure pass protection and pressure, while Cole breaks down quarterback projections, team strength, and why the league's top contenders may be closer together than expected. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
College Football's New Power Structure (opens the original)
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What happens when college football players can make more money by staying in school than by entering the NFL? Steven Godfrey, college football journalist and co-host of Yahoo's College Football Enquirer, examines the financial incentives reshaping college football. He discusses NIL deals, transfer rules, eligibility loopholes, and why former NFL players attempting to return to college football could test the sport's limits. Godfrey also breaks down the Big Ten and SEC, coaching pressure at USC a
How Data Changed MLB Pitching (opens the original)
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Why are today's MLB pitchers harder to hit than ever? Adam Ottavino, former 15-year MLB reliever and current ESPN analyst, explains how pitch-tracking data, high-speed cameras, and personalized pitching labs reshaped his own career and changed player development across baseball. He breaks down how pitchers design new pitches, use bat-tracking data to attack hitters, and adapt their strategy from pitch to pitch. Ottavino also examines why pitching may have gained an edge over hitting, how teams u
Why Pitch Counts Are Failing Baseball (opens the original)
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What if baseball’s most trusted pitching limit is more habit than science? Travis Sawchik, baseball analytics writer and author of Big Data Baseball and The MVP Machine , breaks down why pitch counts can miss the real stress on a pitcher’s arm, how workload units and acute-to-chronic ratios offer a better view of fatigue, and why teams may need to rethink how they build pitching capacity. The conversation also covers MLB trade deadline strategy, the Dodgers’ title odds, the Brewers’ risk calculu
How Constraints Shape Creativity and Athletic Development (opens the original)
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The right limits can lead to better ideas and better performance. David Epstein, bestselling author of The Sports Gene , Range , and Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better , joins Wharton Moneyball to explore how constraints can strengthen creativity, focus, and decision-making. Epstein discusses the value of tight briefs and rapid prototypes, why first ideas are not always the best ideas, and why young athletes may benefit from playing multiple sports before specializing. Hosted on Acas
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