Ep. 657: Philip Maymin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Philip Maymin, an Associate Professor of Analytics and Finance at the University of Bridgeport Trefz School of Business. He is the managing editor of Algorithmic Finance and the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sports Analytics. He has been an analytics consultant with several NBA teams and is the Chief Analytics Officer for Vantage Sports.

The topic is "moneyball" to basketball.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Celtics basketball team
Technology to measure players
Statistical thinking
Basketball stats
Gut feelings
Prediction
Mock drafts

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	I don't watch as much sports as I did as a young guy, but I still love the competition.
0:41.0	I still love knowing what's going on.
0:46.3	American baseball, basketball, and football, I follow those three.
0:50.9	I pretty much know what the hell's going on. Every year, not watching games all the time. I don't
1:00.4	have time for that, but I just love it. I love the energy. And ever since my first book
1:05.4	Trend Following, where I put a chapter in the book about baseball, John Henry, and Moneyball.
1:14.1	I've been fascinated with the parallels to trend following.
1:19.8	It's like one to one. The stuff just goes together.
1:24.5	I always appreciate the critics who say, I can't understand why Michael put Chapter 5 in his
1:31.1	trend following book about baseball. He just seems to like baseball. This has nothing to do with
1:35.6	anything. The most unimaginative, out in left field, don't see how the world works people.
1:43.9	There they are. My guest today is Philip
1:46.6	Myman. He is the chief analytics officer at Vantage Sports. He is an associate professor of
1:53.3	analytics and finance at the University of Bridgeport. Perhaps most interestingly,
1:59.3	he's an analytics consultant for NBA teams, for National Basketball Association teams.
2:06.1	As I just mentioned, I've got a little familiarity with baseball in analytics.
2:12.6	But the NBA, the National Basketball Association, I had not really wrapped my arms around how that fits
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