Michael McRoberts | Football Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions
 
Michael McRoberts (Championship Analytics Inc.) uses Monte Carlo simulations to provide strategy analytics to college and NFL football teams. Topics include communicating data-driven recommendations, the need to create counterfactual data, and asymmetric decision rewards.
 
0:00 The challenge of sports analytics
5:00 Analytics recommendations
16:00 Communicating data-driven recommendations
24:35 Vegas Odds & Ancillary Data
30:00 Football is way behind / Data science projects with a "runway"
41:25 Creating experiments and counterfactuals
49:30 Implementing data science insights
56:15 Asymmetric decision rewards
58:50 How to start in sports analytics
1:10:00 Data science vs analytics vs statistics