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Felger & Massarotti

Analytics are Ruining Sports // Bill James Comments // The War on Nerds - 7/3 (Hour 1)

Felger & Massarotti

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.1978 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

  • (0:00) Felger, Mazz, and Murray open up the show with their thoughts on the analytics situation taking over sports.
  • (15:04) The guys react to negative comments from Bill James - the inventor of Sabremetrics.
  • (26:32) Critiquing Joe Mazzulla’s philosophy of three-point attempt rate.
  • (34:56) The callers weigh in on analytics, Joe Mazzulla, and the war on nerds.

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0:00.0

B-Pod Studios

0:03.0

The Felger and Maz podcast is presented by Draft King Sportsbook.

0:10.2

Yeah.

0:12.5

Oh, right, of course, because I should know what that is.

0:15.6

I don't hear what you think.

0:17.1

It's...

0:17.4

I'll tell you something that rub me right.

0:18.7

Felger and Maz.

0:19.6

I'm 985, the Sports Hub.

0:41.5

Got a gun That's okay man

0:45.9

Because I love God

0:47.7

So my version of a pair of guns

0:52.0

Feel so manly With all my life All right, everybody in the program, coming coming to you on Wednesday, July the third.

1:10.6

It's a Wednesday, but for most of us, most of you, for all intents of purposes, it's a big fat Friday, a big fat getaway day. So, uh, Maz and Murray are coming to us from our town fair tire studios in Waltham. I come to you from the remote A-Hole chair location. How are you guys doing? Very good. So, well, we thought we would treat this like a Friday. Just throw it open to you, people. Okay, agenda-free Friday. We'll still come Friday. I'm sure we'll have it staffed and live on air, and they'll read the sponsor and catch his law and all of that. So this is an unsponsored free form, ad hoc, agenda free Friday. Whatever you want to talk

1:48.1

about, you can just set it with your phone calls. You take us wherever you want to go. Okay?

1:51.9

So that's how we'll do this. 617-779-0-985. Jimmy has already released the hounds.

1:58.3

Load them up and just like a Friday, we'll go to you if you're ready. We'll talk about whatever it is that you want to talk about. In the meantime, like it is a Friday, we'll give you some opening takes and some things that we'll talk about later on throughout the course of the day. Do you guys want to go first? I'll go first because I actually want to read you guys the email I sent to the email chain almost a year ago to the day. One year, $5.5 million for Bertuzi to the Maple Leafs, question mark. All while Don Sweeney signs three washed-up vets and a third or fourth liner were the terrible last name for more than what you could have had Bertuzi for. Morgan Geeky? Gross. There was obviously a major miscalculation on both the Sweeney and Bertuzi camps. Bertuzi way more valuable to this team, these old hacks that he signed. Also, am I missing something or is Matt Griswick untouchable in Sweeney's mind? I mean, seriously, what is going on down there? And do they still need two goalies? This is a long way of me saying, guys, I hate their offseason. So in retrospect, did these moves turn out that poorly? No, Bruins had a nice season for the most part. They won a playoff round, which is about all I could have asked for, given that they're the Bruins, and they exist solely to let me and everyone else down. But I read this just to juxtaposal with how I feel about Sweeney and the Bruins moves this offseason, which frankly, I love.

3:08.6

That might be a bad sign because I didn't like last years and they kind of mostly worked out this time. I love them. But the two marquee moves, Elias Linholm and Nikita Zadurov, two of the top guys out there in Free Agency. And Zadorov, big dude, 65, 250. as you've tweeted out some of the video of this guy

3:25.0

since he's been in the league, mean.

3:26.9

Like, me plays mean. He's... of big dude 6-5-250 as you've tweeted out some of the video of this guy since he's been in

3:25.6

a league mean like me plays mean he's looking to hunt you what did you call him a predator a predator he

3:31.2

is he looks like a he's like the predator that's good and with both combined you're getting

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