On July 24, 2019, professional bettor Spanky introduced a now common sports betting term. In addition, host Ed Feng talks about his plans for the 2025 football season.
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John Reeder, creator of the Risk of Ruin podcast that is This American Life for risk takers, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include:
00:00 Intro
00:53 The story behind Risk of Ruin
04:52 Why John spends so much time editing
13:08 Coming up with ideas for episodes
16:34 Favorite episodes
21:28 Best episodes for first time listeners
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Spanky, a professional sports bettor and creator of Bet Bash, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include:
00:00 Intro
00:20 The greatest moment on The Football Analytics Show podcast
03:13 How Spanky bets in 2025
09:59 How the sports betting industry has changed
19:50 How big the college football props market has to be for Spanky's group to get involved
23:19 Why you should go to Bet Bash
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Looking for a great read? These are my top 5 sports books of all time.
00:00 Intro
00:19 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
01:37 Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
02:54 Duel in the Sun by John Brant
04:10 The Miracle of St. Anthony by Adrian Wojnarowski
05:46 The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss
07:34 Is this list a ranking?
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
The wisdom of crowds by aggregating subjective power rankings is a powerful NFL preseason predictor. Ed Feng describes these results and looks at three teams.
00:00 Intro
01:51 Chicago Bears
05:56 New England Patriots
10:14 Los Angeles Rams.
Check out the post draft wisdom of crowds rankings: https://thepowerrank.com/nfl/
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook that digs deeper into the wisdom of crowds for making preseason NFL predictions. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
Matt Waldman, creator of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP) and senior writer at Football Guys, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Why RSP is read by NFL people and fantasy football players (0:48). Confidence for a quarterback, and who has it in the 2025 class (8:45). Jalen Milroe (21:30). Shadeur Sanders (30:00). Playing multiple sports in high school (41:32). Caleb Williams vs Jayden Daniels (50:32). Drake Maye (55:15).
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Henry Abbott, the founder of TrueHoop NBA blog and author of the new book Ballistic: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The origin the massive blog TrueHoop (6:13). How the New England Patriots massively reduced hamstring injuries (11:44). The origin of ACL injuries in the NBA (17:50). Advice for a runner (25:22). Is static stretching dead? (34:50). Oklahoma City Thunder (36:56).
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Kevin Cole, founder of Unexpected Points and former senior data scientist at PFF, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Does the draft matter in predicting the 2025 season? (1:54). Analytical draft grades based on surplus value (6:37). The asymmetry of a steal versus a reach (8:44). A team with a successful draft (11:28). A team with an awful draft (18:16). The interesting aspect of Shadeur Sanders (22:37). Detroit Lions (31:47).
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
Colorado QB Shadeur Sanders has been dropping in NFL mock drafts. While there could be many reasons for this decline, this episode looks at an unexpected reason: Sanders only played football in high school.
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
JJ Zachariason, the founder of Late Round Fantasy Football and football analytics expert, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The ZAP model for predicting NFL prospects (1:44). Why there are no rushing metrics for running backs (4:50). Two wins and a loss for the prospect model (10:28). The surprising wide receiver at the top of his prospect model (18:18). Three surprise players for the 2025 NFL draft (27:10). Why athleticism is important for tight ends but not wide receivers (29:33).
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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Ryan Noonan, betting content manager at BetSperts, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. While we usually talk about the NFL with Ryan, he used golf analytics to break down the 2025 Masters. Highlights include: Golf analytics to predict the Masters (4:22). Strokes gained (8:14). Previewing top golfers for the 2025 Masters (15:45). 3 Masters bets (22:34). Best sports books to bet golf (29:54).
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
Before the tournament, I predicted Michigan State would have a difficult time making the Final Four based on a surprising predictor of tournament performance. Now, I revisit that claim and look at Sparty's chances in the South region starting on Friday night.
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
The 8 seeds in the 2025 NCAA tournament are particularly good. Edward Egros identifies which of these teams could take down a 1 seed this weekend.
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Edward Egros breaks down this team that shoots a lot of threes and has a nice path to the Sweet Sixteen. This team also has a unique advantage the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.
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Duke looked like the favorite to win the NCAA tournament until the Cooper Flagg injury. Edward Egros looks at the betting implications of that injury and breaks down this talented team.
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Points per possession is the bedrock of basketball analytics. But can we do even better? This episode looks at three point defense and how it impacts Tennessee and Houston.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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Gonzaga doesn't seem like an elite team with 8 losses this season. However, Edward Egros makes the argument for Gonzaga as a championship contender through two key pieces of information.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The numbers love the SEC conference, but will this lead to NCAA tournament success? Edward Egros uses The Power Rank team rankings to evaluate the SEC and breaks down three teams.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The human brain does not deal with randomness well, as explained in this episode through the light detection experiment. This has implications for your 2025 NCAA tournament bracket.
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The preseason AP poll is a remarkable predictor of the NCAA tournament despite not having any access to data from the current season. It also can identify overrated teams, and host Ed Feng discusses one possible team for 2025.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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How well do the college basketball team rankings at The Power Rank predict winners in the NCAA tournament? These predictive analytics are compared to the closing market over a huge data set.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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Dr. Nick Giffen, a mathematics Ph.D. from North Carolina State that works at the Action Network, joins me for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: His journey to math Ph.D. and then sports betting (1:11). College basketball player and team projections (7:14). The aspect of college basketball predictions that a math PhD does manually (9:50). Mathematical distribution of player points (16:25). Gonzaga (18:05). March Madness rollover strategy (20:12). NFL player in-game predictions (24:53).
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
Evan Miyakawa, a statistics Ph.D. from Baylor and college basketball analytics expert, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: How to build a college basketball team now (1:15). Michigan (4:58). Florida (10:24). How the player and team ratings work at EvanMiya.com (12:33). Cooper Flagg of Duke (17:33). Who is Joseph Tugler? (19:50). Surprise team to win the NCAA tournament (23:34).
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics. To get the March Madness cheat sheet that makes it drop dead easy to fill out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6
We take a one week break from sports to bring you a story of going to the Buffalo Trace Distillery.
Carl Sack, a professional sports bettor who has gone by NBA Guru, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Model driven NBA betting (4:22). Preparing for the NBA season and adjusting on teams (10:19). Data driven situational analysis (17:30). How his model changed with the Luka Doncic trade (27:55).
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6