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Hello and welcome to episode 1475 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from

Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Dan Lemberg of the

Ringer flying solo as host today with the help of a couple guests and I just

called this a baseball podcast but for the next 10 days or so it's gonna be a

podcast about other sports too and something a little new and different and

hopefully exciting for us. We've been at this since the summer of 2012 so we don't

want to get stuck in a rut trying to push the boundaries of what this podcast can be.

This is the first episode of a seven episode series that I'm calling the

Multi-Sport Sabermetrics Exchange. This is an idea that Jeff Sullivan and I had

last baseball off season but between my book and his job interviews we never got

around to it. I am rectifying that now. So the goal here is to provide a primer on

the past present and future of advanced analysis in each sport and what we hope to do

is bring together some of the leading formative analysts from a variety of non-baseball sports

and kind of compare notes because uneffectively wild we tend to talk about baseball through an

analytical lens not exclusively but often we like to consider the Sabermetric perspective

and of course just about every sport these days has an analytical movement often not as developed

as baseballs because baseball is so well suited to statistical analysis and has such a long

history of it and of course was the sport that spawned moneyball but even if Sabermetric style

analysis is not nearly as pervasive in every other sport the analytical movements and many other

athletic endeavors are proceeding along similar paths often retracing some of the same steps

causing the same conflicts and we thought this would be a fun way for fans of these various

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