Rankings Debate: Man vs. Machine Part 1 (Episode 389: Silva and Leone Debate)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
One man relies on his NFL knowledge and savant-like ability to project performance. The other relies on advanced models and algorithms. In Part 1 of the Man vs. Machine series, Evan Silva and Mike Leone debate.
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Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Mark Ingram ranking
- Miles Sanders ranking
- Brandin Cooks ranking
- Gabe Davis ranking
- Tons more
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- Dynasty Rankings - https://establishtherun.com/2022-dynasty-rankings/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hello and welcome to episode 389 of the official established the run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Adam Levittan as always joined by Evan Silva and today we are joined by the |
| 0:28.3 | Translucent One, the fearless leader of the spreadsheet versions. He's single-handedly keeping |
| 0:33.5 | Microsoft Excel in business. It is the king of the small field nosebleed steaks, DFS streets, |
| 0:42.1 | our own director of analytics, Michael Leoni. How's it going, buddy? It's going well. I'm getting |
| 0:47.4 | pretty amped up to defend the spreadsheet versions up against Mr. Manly Landscape, Evan Silva. |
| 0:55.4 | Evan, how's it going this afternoon? Yeah, I'm always excited for this one. Actually, I |
| 1:01.4 | drive him back from Cape Cod or driving to and from Cape Cod. I drove right by Leoni. Next year, |
| 1:06.7 | hopefully we could hook up, maybe get some lunch or something. But yeah, it was a little, you know, |
| 1:12.5 | there were some revelations yesterday from you, Adam, especially that you're now doing |
| 1:18.1 | siops for the People's Republic of China on TikTok. But it does look like the government, |
| 1:25.1 | the US government is going to do something right for once and get rid of TikTok, hopefully for good. |
| 1:30.9 | Buddy, we got to go where the kids are, okay? The kids are on TikTok. All right, we're going on TikTok. |
| 1:36.1 | Yes, you can hopefully all have seen our TikToks. It's so outrageous. But anyways, |
| 1:41.8 | I thought you were going to say when you said you drove through Buffalo, I thought what you were |
| 1:44.0 | going to say is hopefully next year I can stop at Leoni's house and mow his lawn for him. |
| 1:49.0 | And he's not having fun with people to do that. Don't worry. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay, on the next two shows, we're going to play a game of man versus machine. Silva, of course, |
| 1:59.9 | will play the role of the man, the one who plucks his own weeds, the one who evaluates offensive |
| 2:05.7 | line play with his bare eyes, the one who grinds the tape. Leoni, on the other hand, will play the |
| 2:10.8 | role of machine, AKA one who spends his days solving his life, solving's life's questions in Python, |
| 2:19.6 | running regression models, one who pays another man to mow his lawn. Yes, I will preside over this |
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