Yahoo’s Nate Tice on balancing details with broad appeal: ‘I found the path’
“I think it's really cool to point that out to people and go like, ‘Yeah, you know this guy's good. Why is he good? This is why he's good.’”
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Kevin Brown on ‘Sunday Night Baseball Statcast Edition’ alternate broadcast: ‘These numbers don’t have to be scary.’
Michael Lewis on how ‘Moneyball’ made him mute broadcasts: ‘Joe Morgan was saying rude things about my life.’
"I did get sick of not being able to turn on ESPN without people arguing about it. I’m trying to watch a baseball game and get on my exercise machine and Joe Morgan was saying rude things about my life. That was fun for a little while, but like two years in I was just tired of it."
As he predicted, Salt Lake Tribune writer Andy Larsen got ‘absolutely pilloried’ for NBA Rookie of the Year vote, but defended it
Ken Pomeroy couldn’t have forecast going from a weatherman to a college basketball analytics man
"I like sports and I like math. I gravitated towards college basketball as my favorite sport."
MLB Network will air a fourth stats-focused broadcast, this time with Joe Girardi and Jon Heyman joining Brian Kenny and Mike Petriello
This will mark the fourth-straight year MLBN has done a stats-focused broadcast, featuring "in-depth context of analytics."
Advanced stats are seeping into MLB broadcast booths, but the results are still sometimes awkward
Last week, the Houston Chronicle published an article that could never have existed a decade ago. The piece explains how...
This Week In Hot Takes: Romo, WAR, NFL, hurricanes and hot takes themselves
In a world that has embraced debate, there are many hot sports takes out there in any given...
Bucks hire analytics writer Seth Partnow as director of basketball research
The trend of sports teams hiring statistical analysts continues, with the latest move along those lines being the...
ESPN’s Craig Burley loses his mind over Pep Guardiola and expected goals
Former Chelsea and Scotland defender/midfielder and current ESPN FC pundit Craig Burley apparently has quite a bone to...