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