Chilling With Charlie

Micah makes visualizations that help people understand hockey at hockeyviz.com. His graphs, charts, and articles show what happened, suggest what will happen, show us how we should think about hockey.Help Micah reach his goal and subscribe to his Patreon page for the best ice hockey analysis going around.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

In this episode we talk about how Jack ended up doing his PhD through the West Coast Eagles. His PhD work and his work around education of the next generation of umpires.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Seth Partnow covers the NBA and basketball analytics for The Athletic. He resides in Milwaukee and was formerly the Director of Basketball Research for the Milwaukee Bucks. Before that, he was lead writer and managing editor of The Nylon Calculus, a leading basketball analytics website.Seth previously worked as an educational consultant focusing on issues of cross-cultural communication and learning styles in Alaska. Though a very different context, this experience honed the skills needed to successfully navigate the often difficult divide between data science and statistics on one hand and sport-specific expertise on the other.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Dr Paul Wu is a Research Fellow, Associate Investigator for the Australian Research Council centre of excellence of mathematical and statistical frontiers. He is also a member of the Bayesian Research and Applications Group at QUT. Paul has been involved in some interesting research at sports, including predictive modelling of fatigue (with the AIS) and Bayesian analysis in sports.Read more about Paul here.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Dean Towers is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football LeagueIn 2019, Towers became a player and head coach with the UNSW-Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs in the Sydney AFL competition.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Something very special, recorded just after Week 1 of the NFL season. We have a panel discussion with Ron, Eric and Josh. We talk running backs, the future of NFL analytics and much much more.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Konstantinos Pelechrinis joined the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2010, where he is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information. Kostas leads the Network Data Science Lab. He has worked on papers across the NFL and NBA and has taken an interest in the development of the next generation of sports analysts. Hear about all this and more on a cracking Chilling With Charlie.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Greg is an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola University Chicago, where he started in 2014. (As of August 2019, has not been fired.) You might know him from openWAR or online as statsinthewild.com.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Lau Sze Yui, better known as @903124S, works on sports analytics and shares the result on Twitter in his spare time.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Brendan Kent (@brendankent), who served as Soccer Data Analyst for the Portland Timbers from 2015-2018, Co- President of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective from 2016-2017, and is currently a member of the Analytics team at DraftKings. But more importantly he hosts a fantastic podcast called Measureables.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Andrew Mack you might know better by his twitter handle @Gingfacekillah or you might have gotten a hands on his book statistical sports modelling in Excel. We chat about how he got into sports modelling, some modelling tips and future plans.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Christie Aschwanden is the author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery and co-host of EMERGING FORM, a podcast about the creative process. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington Post.We chat about her science journey, Magnitude based inferences and how non scientists can read and be more wary of scientific claims.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Daniel is a PhD student at Deakin University looking at all things injuries relating to the AFL. He has presented at conferences both overseas and locally.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Jocelyn Mara is an Assistant Professor in Sports Analytics at the University of Canberra, she's here to talk about what its like learning sports analytics and some of the cool things she's working on with her PhD students. Check out the course here https://www.canberra.edu.au/coursesandunits/course?course_cd=363JA&version_number=1Hear about how you can gain practical work experience on your journey to working in sports.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Sam McIntosh is a PhD student at Victoria University who is working with Sam Robertson in conjunction with the Western Bulldogs on his PhD. His focus is on player evaluation and hopes to use his studies to help inform teams how to build a successful list.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Michael Lopez is the Director of Data and Analytics at the National Football League, and holds an adjunct role as a statistics professor at Skidmore College. His research spans causal inference – with a specific focus on causal inference methods for multiple exposures or multiple exposure doses – and the application of statistics to sports.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Demis has just completed his Masters of Sports Analytics, hear about the course, the benefits and how it has lead to some interesting projects for Hawthorn and Box Hill.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Dani is a masters student at Simon Fraser University and has been part of numerous sports analytics hackathon winning teams. We talk about the big one, the NFL Data Bowl, his betting research how he got into sports analytics and some tips for future sports analytics students/hackathon participants.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Lisa Assender is the head of finance and analytics for punters.com.au. Hear abut her journey from the accounting world into the analytics world, how she has gone about it from a non-typical analytics background, and the interesting pieces she’s working on with her team.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!

Scott Kaplan is a 4th year PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley.While he has championship experience (winning UC Berkeley’s intramural basketball championship in 2018), his sports-related research has focused on the economics of superstar players, attempting to measure the economic value of these players to fans.He presented at the 2019 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, winning Best Poster for his work on NBA superstars.Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests!