How Bookmakers Should Use Sharp Action + Helping Teams Win With Analytics: One-on-One with Ted Knutson
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with former professional bettor and Pinnacle bookmaker Ted Knutson.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Ted booked sharp action
Using data to help soccer and NFL teams
How bad are coaches at analytics?
Lots more
Timestamps:
1:12 - Ted’s Background in Sports Betting
4:54 - Moving From Betting to Pinnacle
8:48 - How Complex Are The Derivatives
11:58 - What Sportsbooks Think About Limits
16:11 - How Books Use Sharp Action
21:58 - Pinnacle’s Perspective on Prop Betting
24:29 - Top Down Betting vs. Bottom Up Betting
26:20 - Why Ted Left Pinnacle for Statsbomb
30:23 - How Statsbomb collects Unique Data
34:31 - Where Are NFL Teams Bad At Analytics?
38:49 - How Statsbomb Helps Soccer Teams
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the official EstablishTheRun.com podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | My name is Adam Levittent. |
| 0:19.8 | Today, we have a very, very special guest. |
| 0:23.1 | This is a young man I first heard about through great friend of the show, Rufus Peabody. |
| 0:28.0 | He's been on both sides of the counter pro book pro better and bookmaker now running stats |
| 0:34.4 | bomb, which provides analytics data and analysis to professional soccer. |
| 0:38.4 | And I believe we'll get into it. |
| 0:39.4 | But I believe maybe some NFL teams, although I'm not sure about that. |
| 0:42.6 | It is Ted Knudsen, founder and CEO of stats bomb. |
| 0:47.2 | Ted, how's it going? |
| 0:48.8 | Oh, it's good. |
| 0:49.3 | Thanks. |
| 0:49.7 | Thank you for inviting me. |
| 0:51.0 | I want to ask that you guys have like a lot of bootleg other podcasts that are the unofficial ones |
| 0:55.9 | Yes, we're getting ripped off all over the place. |
| 0:58.0 | People have the unofficial EstablishTheRun podcast. |
| 1:01.5 | No, we have a couple smaller different podcasts. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the flagship, as they say. |
| 1:05.9 | So welcome to the flagship. |
| 1:07.2 | You should be honored. |
| 1:08.6 | It's nice to be here. |
| 1:09.5 | I appreciate it. |
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