Colin Davy on analytics for the Masters and Jeopardy
Colin Davy on analytics for the Masters and Jeopardy

Colin Davy on analytics for the Masters and Jeopardy

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<p>Colin Davy, data scientist at Facebook and two time winner of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Hackathon, joins me to talk about his custom golf model for the Masters. He describes how he uses Markov Chains to predict the outcome of golf and how this differs from the Strokes Gained approach. He predicts which golfers have the highest probability to win the 2021 Masters. Finally, Colin talks about how he used data to become a Jeopardy champion.</p>

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