and All right, welcome back to another episode of the Will Raggots show on Purple Insider. I'm Will Raggots, cover the Vikings for

S.I.com. And joining me today is Scott Spratt from Football Outsiders. He's a fantasy and analytics writer for Football Outsiders and

Edge Sports. Scott, how's it going, man? Thanks for coming on. Good, Will. Happy to be here bringing

the nerd corner over to your podcast.

Happy to do so.

Yeah, so I want to start by talking a little bit

about your job and what you do

and how you got into football analytics.

Can we just hear a little bit about your background

before we talk about the Vikings here?

Yeah, absolutely.

So I mean, I started like a lot of people

that want to break into the football

and media industry do where, you know where I didn't have a job in the

industry I didn't study that in school so I just kind of started writing on my

own submitted some stuff to some websites, fam graphs, and pro football focus

to analytically leaning sites for baseball and football.

And ended up starting out as it's just riders getting paid

by the article, in a lot of cases, not getting paid.

But I had a bit of a breakthrough

when I got hired by Sports Info Solutions,

which is more of a B2B type company, I would say,

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