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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1476: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Hockey and Cricket)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

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In the second installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to Evolving-Hockey.com’s Josh and Luke Younggren about hockey and then writer, commentator, and team analyst Jarrod Kimber about cricket (57:13), touching on the origins of sabermetrics-style analysis in each sport, the major challenges, big breakthroughs, and overturned misconceptions, the early adopters, the cutting-edge stats and tech, the level of acceptance within the game, the effects on the spectator experience, the parallels with baseball, and more.

Audio intro: Neil Young, "When Worlds Collide"
Audio interstitial: Guided By Voices, "Your Cricket is Rather Unique"
Audio outro: Jethro Tull, "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day"

Link to Evolving-Hockey
Link to Evolving-Hockey’s Patreon page
Link to the Younggrens’ NHL WAR model
Link to Stat Shot
Link to Grantland article on hockey’s “Summer of Analytics”
Link to FiveThirtyEight on the costs of hockey’s analytics boom
Link to FiveThirtyEight on pulling the goalie
Link to article on the NHL’s faulty shot-location data
Link to article on a fix for the NHL’s faulty shot-location data
Link to Jarrod on cricket fielding metrics
Link to Jarrod on applying data to cricket
Link to Jarrod on T20 team scoring
Link to Jarrod on right-left pairs in cricket
Link to “Smash Factor” explainer
Link to article about “Smash Factor” use on Boxing Day
Link to Baseball Prospectus on “Hot Spot” in the 2011 World Series
Link to video of “Hot Spot” on a 2011 World Series broadcast
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

Who canate speech? Who canante HERE Find???

0:05.8

Ask to trample... When will IT go hard?

0:11.4

Stay, stay Tamb financing Don't play like a sacrifice

0:19.2

Banking

0:22.1

Hello and welcome

0:23.2

to episode 1476

0:25.2

of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters

0:30.6

I'm Femminberg of the Ringer and today we are on part 2 of our 7 episode series on the state of advanced analysis in other sports

0:38.4

Which we are calling the multi-sport saber metrics exchange for anyone who missed the intro to the first part

0:44.0

We're taking some time during the slow holiday weeks here

0:46.6

We talk about the past present and future of advanced analysis in a dozen different non baseball sports with some people

0:53.7

who've been among the leading lights in those sports analytical movements

0:56.9

We covered American football and basketball yesterday and today we are turning our attention to hockey and cricket

1:03.3

So without further preamble, it is time to talk my favorite non baseball sport as a spectator experience at least hockey

1:10.4

And to do that we are bringing on the brains behind a evolving hockey.com

1:15.5

Josh and Luke Younggren, they are twin brothers and they are among the foremost hockey analysts still out there in the public sphere

1:23.2

At least for now they also contribute to hockey graphs

1:26.5

And I don't know if there's a seniority here is one of you one minute older or something and I should introduce you first

1:32.5

Well first of all thank you for having us. Yeah, I thank you so much

1:36.0

Technically I am Josh and I am six minutes older than my brother, which I am Luke

1:40.5

So you know he's yeah, he's a little older, but you know

1:44.0

I don't I don't hold that against him

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