Inside How Analytics Is Shaping And Will Change The NFL (Episode 734 with ESPN's Seth Walder, SIS's former Browns/Saints Scout Matt Manocherian, and ETR's Mike Leone)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Mike Leone sit down with ESPN's Seth Walder and SIS's Matt Manocherian to discuss the prevalence of analytics within the NFL in today's game.
In this episode, we discuss:
How analytics are used within the NFL in 2024.
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Timestamps:
(1:48) - How Do NFL Teams Use Analytics
(8:54) - Where Does Analytics Benefit NFL Teams Most
(15:04) - Where Analytics Meets Scouting
(19:03) - Bare Minimal Analytic Examples In The NFL
(24:43) - How Well Do Teams Data Collect?
(36:13) - The Next Advancements In Analytics
(42:21) - How To Break Into NFL Analytics
(46:52) - Modeling For Team-Level Outcomes
(54:24) - Listener Questions
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 734 of the official Establish the run |
| 0:20.8 | podcast my name is Adam Levitan and we have reached a point in the |
| 0:25.4 | NFL where you can't even take a breath without hearing about analytics. It's actually, it's actually |
| 0:31.1 | gotten so out of control to the point I think it annoys even thoughtful football fans. |
| 0:36.6 | However, however, we're here to solve all that hate against analytics. |
| 0:41.5 | To do it, we're going to get into the actual work that's being done by people actually doing it, how it helps, what NFL teams are doing, what we think the NFL is missing, where the NFL goes from here, and what we can do to forecast better. |
| 0:54.0 | A peek behind the curtain of football analytics, if you will. |
| 0:58.0 | For this, I'm joined by an illustrious panel. |
| 1:01.0 | You all know and love our own Michael Leone. |
| 1:04.9 | He's running our data side team, |
| 1:06.7 | which is now somehow at four full-timers. |
| 1:10.2 | Shout out Sam W, Sam B, and Connor, Leone, how's it going? |
| 1:15.0 | It's going great. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm excited to, you know, honestly, mostly sit back and hear what Matt and Seth have to say. |
| 1:20.0 | Also here is Matt Mano of Sports Info Solutions aka SIS doing some really useful stuff in terms of data collection and tons more. |
| 1:29.5 | Matt has it going today. |
| 1:31.0 | Doing really well, happy to be here. |
| 1:33.1 | And last but not, Seth Walder of ESPN. |
| 1:36.3 | If you have an issue with any data or numbers |
| 1:38.4 | you have seen while watching games on ESPN, |
| 1:40.2 | you can personally blame Seth. |
| 1:42.0 | How's it going today? It's's going well bring on the hate please please send it my way okay let's start here and I'll start with you |
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