#749 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - The Hidden Statistics That Control The NBA

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist, economist and author. Basketball is one of the most popular sports on the planet. Seth has used advanced AI to statistically analyse everything about the players, their backgrounds, hand-span, height, first names and more to uncover some of the wildest trends in the game. Expect to learn what percentage of American men over 7 feet tall are in the NBA, why there is a huge outlier of the most common name of all NBA players, who the best height-adjusted player of all time is, just how important genetics are in basketball, whether the Draft is effective and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 5.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get an exclusive discount from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: http://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: http://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's happening people? Welcome back to the show my guest today is Seth Stevens
0:04.3	Davidowitz. He's a data scientist, economist and an author.
0:08.2	Basketball is one of the most popular sports on the planet. Seth has used advanced AI to statistically analyze everything about the players,
0:16.0	their backgrounds, hands span, height, first names and more to uncover some of the wildest trends
0:21.7	in the game.
0:22.6	Expect to learn what percentage of American men over 7 feet tall are in the NBA, why there
0:27.6	is a huge outlier in the most common name of all NBA players, who the best height-adjusted player of all time is
0:34.4	just how important genetics are in basketball whether the draft is actually
0:38.3	effective and much more. Even if you're not a basketball fan, this is so fascinating.
0:45.4	Someone that has used AI and ChatGPT and a bunch of other advanced tools
0:49.2	to just do the money ball of basketball.
0:51.9	It's really, really cool. Seth's been on the show a bunch of times before and this is a bunch of stats I actually dropped on Rogan's show last week. So if you enjoyed that, you're going to enjoy this. So get ready.
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