Wharton Moneyball
The Wharton School
Sports is a game of numbers. Wharton experts Eric Bradlow, Shane Jensen, Cade Massey, and Adi Wyner team up to tackle the world of sports, from current events to longstanding issues such as: What sports streaks are the most impressive? How do you rank the best players? Can athletes be compared across sports? Moneyball explains how decision-makers in the game can avoid the common mistakes and embrace the data. Episodes are recorded at the Wharton School. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Sep 16, 2016 • 11min
The Wharton Moneyball Post Game Podcast: Grit, Big Papi, And NFL Run Backs
In this edition of The Wharton Moneyball Post Game Podcast Professor of Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania Adi Wyner takes you through an interview with Caroline Miller about grit in sports as well as this weeks discussion regarding Big Papi and NFL run backs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 9, 2016 • 11min
The Wharton Moneyball Post Game Podcast: Football & The Perfect Pass
UPenn Professor of Statistics Adi Wyner hosts and re-caps the 9/14/16 edition of SiriusXM's Wharton Moneyball. In this episode Associate Professor of Statistics at UPenn Shane Jensen and UPenn Practice Professor Cade Massey interview S.C. Gwynne, the author of "The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football " and Coach Rob Ash, the offensive analyst for Arkansas and former head coach of Montana State. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 2, 2016 • 11min
The Wharton Moneyball Post Game Podcast: The Major Leagues
The first episode of the weekly podcast. Wharton Professor Adi Wyner hosts the show and takes you through the highlights of SiriusXM's Wharton Moneyball. In this episode Wharton Moneyball points out the differences between the major and minor leagues in baseball with Director of Pitching Development for the Baltimore Orioles Rick Peterson. Then Lead Writer for News at FiveThirtyEight Carl Bialik compares tennis players and win predictability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
