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Hello and welcome to episode 1278 of Effective Wildy, a baseball podcast from Fanggraphs presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of the Big Graphs, hello

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Okay, so we saw some wildcard games, we've got some division series starting

We should talk about all of these things, this will just be a playoff episode as far as I know

So I wanted to talk a little bit about the broadcast of the N.O. Wildcard game

I know you didn't get to see it because it wasn't available online

But it was really good, I thought we talked to Jason Penetti, of course, to preview it a little bit

And I thought it turned out really well, I know it was very well received by our listeners

But I got the sense that it was well received by pretty much everyone

And I thought it was really well done, it was Jason, Mike Petriello, Eduardo Perez

And it wasn't so much the stats that I liked about it, I mean the stats were good

And I don't know if there were any stats that made me say wow, but they were definitely some stats that made me say, huh

So that was good

But even more so than that, and even more so than the graphics, which were also cool

Like I liked seeing the, you know, directional range stuff for the outfielders and the stolen base probability

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