Michael McRoberts | Football Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions

<p>Michael McRoberts | Football Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>0:00 The challenge of sports analytics</p> <p>5:00 Analytics recommendations</p> <p>16:00 Communicating data-driven recommendations</p> <p>24:35 Vegas Odds & Ancillary Data</p> <p>30:00 Football is way behind / Data science projects with a "runway"</p> <p>41:25 Creating experiments and counterfactuals</p> <p>49:30 Implementing data science insights</p> <p>56:15 Asymmetric decision rewards</p> <p>58:50 How to start in sports analytics</p> <p>1:10:00 Data science vs analytics vs statistics</p>