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The Taekcast

Ep. 22 - Into The Matrix w/ Kevin Cole from Rotogrinders

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

Fantasy Sports, News, Sports News, Sports

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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@Cole_Kev joins the show to discuss how he and Davis fell in love with sports, his passion for the NBA and the NFL & how those intertwine, inefficiencies in evaluating NFL draft prospects, how to mathematically attack DraftKings Showdown slates and more. Presented by www.MyBookie.AG Promo code: MATTEK & ApexFantasyLeagues.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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the MyBooky.ag deposit bonus. Now let's get back to the show.

2:00.0

Hello everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the Tatecast. My name is Davis-Matic. You can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic. This episode of the show is done with Kevin Cole, who is the director of analytics at rotogriners.com. We have a pretty fascinating discussion about how we came to discover sports analytics, our

2:19.4

combined passion for both the NBA and the NFL, of course, inefficiencies in the NFL

2:25.1

in the NFL draft and roster construction, and a lot more, even some discussion of how to

2:29.6

attack showdown slates on draft kings and the math behind that.

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