EP27: Special Guest Cynthia Frelund

No Mercy

No Mercy with Tommy G

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Tommy is joined by good friend and Predictive Analytics Expert for the NFL Network, Cynthia Frelund to discuss everything you will ever need to know about football from an a data perspective. They go into how Cynthia created her model, which teams have the highest probabilities to make the playoffs, whether interceptions are random or not and much much more. You can follow Cynthia on Twitter @Cfrelund and Tommy @TommyG

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0:00.0	What up, she boy Tommy G here with no mercy episode 27.
0:04.0	At the beginning of the podcast, I think I said 28,
0:06.5	but I went back in fact checked. It's indeed 27.
0:09.0	Today I had a special guest.
0:11.0	I was joined by a good friend of mine, Cynthia Freeland,
0:13.0	who's the predictive analytics expert for the NFL network.
0:16.0	Make sure to get over to Twitter, give her a follow at C Freeland,
0:19.0	CFR EL UND, one E in Freeland.
0:24.0	We covered everything on this pod.
0:26.0	I mean, we went from her background to what it's like to be an attractive
0:29.0	woman in an industry full of men. We recapped the Carolina pit game.
0:33.0	We talked about her algorithm that she built and her model to predict outcomes of
0:37.0	games and playoff probabilities and super bowl probabilities.
0:40.0	We talked about the chiefs, the patriots, the Rams, the saints, the Eagles, the Packers,
0:43.0	pretty much every team that's relevant in the NFL when we do a real long
0:46.0	conversation about our interceptions random or not.
0:49.0	This is a topic that has been sweeping through the DFS industry,
0:52.0	at least in my little Twitter verse. And Cynthia brought some data.
0:55.0	We even talked to some baseball. We covered everything.
0:58.0	You name it, we covered it. So I think you're going to enjoy it.
1:01.0	Great podcast, great guest. Thank you to Cynthia for coming on.
1:04.0	But get over to gurulead.com, G-U-R-U-E-L-I-T-E.
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