NLU Podcast, Episode 461: Mark Broadie

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Golf, Sports

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mark Broadie joins us to discuss the origins of his groundbreaking work in golf analytics research and the evolution of the strokes gained metrics. Mark also breaks down some inefficiencies in the OWGR rankings system, how he would use his data to pick a Ryder Cup team, and some potential improvements in technology that could help refine the strokes gained metrics.

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0:00.0	That's better than most.
0:16.0	That is better than most.
0:20.0	Better than most.
0:29.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No-Lang Up Podcast.
0:32.0	I'm very excited about today's episode with Mark Brody,
0:36.0	Columbia professor, the inventor of Strokes Gained,
0:39.0	talking, as you might guess, a lot about Strokes Gained,
0:41.0	about data and golf, about Colin Moore, Kawa, Tony Fiennell,
0:45.0	Louis Usthason.
0:46.0	A lot of the topics we discuss pretty frequently in the
0:48.0	on the show.
0:49.0	It pays to get somebody in here to actually really
0:52.0	knows what he's talking about that can help us interpret a
0:54.0	lot of data that we're trying to interpret some on our own.
0:57.0	There's a great profile on Mark Brody at SchwabGolf.com.
1:00.0	They do this great series.
1:01.0	It's called the Challenger series.
1:03.0	They profile four or five different people every year,
1:06.0	different groups of people every year that are challenging the
1:09.0	status quo in some way in golf.
1:11.0	They're very digestible, short videos that put some
1:14.0	faces to the voices you hear in golf and tell their story
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