#ICYMI - Moneyball 2.0 – Soccer Edition

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🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice enter the world of big-data analytics and its rising influence on the game of soccer on the world stage alongside Dan Altman from North Yard Analytics and Howard Hamilton from Soccermetrics. Image Credit: Soccermetrics, with data by DataFactory LA.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:05.6	The Star Talk Network is pleased to present to you a new show where the universe and sports
0:12.4	collide.
0:14.0	And now I give you your hosts.
0:16.6	Hey, I'm Sup Nice.
0:18.7	I'm Gary Arleine.
0:20.3	And we are the host of Playing With Science.
0:24.8	Are you ready for this?
0:26.8	Yes!
0:28.8	Yes!
0:30.8	I'm Gary Arleine.
0:34.8	And I'm Sup Nice.
0:36.8	And this is Playing With Science.
0:38.8	Today's a show about football or soccer, if you prefer, a look not to the eyes of a player
0:53.6	or a fan, but through the cascading waterfall of zeros and ones that data analysts love to
0:59.5	hide behind.
1:00.5	Yes!
1:01.5	And soccer or football if you prefer has all been considered moneyball 2.0, a sport at
1:08.5	the elite level that's right for a data dump and seismic shift in the thinking on how
1:13.6	all sport is viewed, conceived and enjoyed.
1:17.6	Yes.
1:18.6	And joining us to pull back the curtain and reveal all is one off.
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