Effectively Wild Episode 1479: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Esports and Volleyball)
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In the fifth installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to ESports One Head of Esports Data Science Tim Sevenhuysen about esports and then Volleymetrics founder Giuseppe Vinci about volleyball (43:25), 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: Wild Fire, "Video Warrior"
Audio interstitial: Of Montreal, "Spike the Senses"
Audio outro: Guided By Voices, "The Rally Boys"
Link to Ben on the Wild West of esports stats
Link to Ben on the Overwatch meta
Link to Ben on the Player Impact Rating in Overwatch
Link to Compete on big data in esports
Link to Vice article on Tim
Link to VentureBeat article on Tim
Link to Blitz Esports article on Tim
Link to Tim on founding Shadow
Link to Oracle’s Elixir
Link to Part 1 of Tim’s LCS 2020 power rankings
Link to Part 2 of Tim’s LCS 2020 power rankings
Link to Ben on the origins of StarCraft
Link to Volleymetrics page at Hudl
Link to SportTechie on volleyball analytics
Link to FiveThirtyEight on volleyball metrics
Link to article about BYU volleyball
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | A color evasion, a showing on the screen |
| 0:07.0 | You take control now of this wall machine |
| 0:14.0 | You play the role of a video warrior |
| 0:17.0 | You play the wind of the game, I control of you |
| 0:20.0 | You play the role, you play the wind, video warrior |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1479 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:31.0 | The baseball podcast for the bandwraps presented by |
| 0:34.0 | Alex H. Trion supporters, I am Ben Lingerd of the |
| 0:37.0 | Ringer and today we are continuing our |
| 0:39.0 | multi-sport Supermetrics exchange series |
| 0:41.0 | in which we provide a primer on the state of advanced analytics |
| 0:45.0 | Doesn't different non-daseball sports, you're just joining us now |
| 0:48.0 | Already discussed eight of them, American football, basketball, hockey, cricket, tennis, golf, soccer, rugby |
| 0:54.0 | and today we are tackling eSports and volleyball |
| 0:57.0 | Which some of our regular listeners may be a little less familiar with |
| 1:00.0 | But that just means there's more to learn |
| 1:02.0 | They're both really interesting analytically |
| 1:04.0 | So let's begin with eSports |
| 1:06.0 | And I am joined now by Tim Seven-Husen |
| 1:08.0 | He is the head of eSports data science at the eSports stats company eSports1 |
| 1:13.0 | He previously led the eSports analysis company Shadow |
| 1:17.0 | And he's also the founder of the League of Legends stats site |
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