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The Taekcast

Ep. 81 - Exploring Astroball w/ Ben Reiter, Author of Astroball

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

News, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Sports News

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

[Ben Reiter](https://twitter.com/BenReiter) joins the Taekcast to discuss his best-selling book about the Houston Astros organization, Astroball. Davis and Ben cover some key anecdotes from the book, how the Astros blend data and scouting, the value of intangibles, the heuristics of decision making, what is inside the Astros Black Box, how these lessons apply to the world of football and much more. www.patreon.com/taekcast SPONSORS www.dailyroto.com PROMO: RORY RotoExperts.com PROMO: MATTEK 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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0:43.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Tatecast.

0:44.4

My name is Davis-Matic.

0:46.7

You can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic.

0:53.8

In this episode of the show, I felt very blessed to have Ben Ryder, the author of Astro Ball, on the podcast. Astro Ball really made the rounds on

0:56.7

daily fantasy Twitter, football, Twitter, baseball, Twitter, analytics Twitter over the last

1:02.0

sort of six months or so. So I was really excited to talk to Ben about the book, about how some of

1:08.1

the things that the Astros do are really innovative about some of the

1:12.1

things that they're doing with their scouts and combining that with data, how these things

1:17.4

might apply to football. So just a lot of really interesting topics that I think are perfectly

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aligned with what this show is about. We are, of course, presented by daily rhodo.com.

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And you can always leave a rating and

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review on iTunes to support the show. If you like the show and you want extra episodes, bonus episodes,

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you can subscribe to the Patreon for $5 a month, patreon.com slash take cast. And now let's go ahead

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