Bracket Wisdom #6: Going beyond efficiency metrics in making predictions
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Release Date: 03/16/2025
John Reeder on creating Risk of Ruin audio documentaries
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
John Reeder, creator of the Risk of Ruin podcast that is This American Life for risk takers, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: 00:00 Intro 00:53 The story behind Risk of Ruin 04:52 Why John spends so much time editing 13:08 Coming up with ideas for episodes 16:34 Favorite episodes 21:28 Best episodes for first time listeners The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:...
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Spanky on sports betting in 2025
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Spanky, a professional sports bettor and creator of Bet Bash, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: 00:00 Intro 00:20 The greatest moment on The Football Analytics Show podcast 03:13 How Spanky bets in 2025 09:59 How the sports betting industry has changed 19:50 How big the college football props market has to be for Spanky's group to get involved 23:19 Why you should go to Bet Bash The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and...
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The Top 5 Sports Books of All Time
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Looking for a great read? These are my top 5 sports books of all time. 00:00 Intro 00:19 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 01:37 Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger 02:54 Duel in the Sun by John Brant 04:10 The Miracle of St. Anthony by Adrian Wojnarowski 05:46 The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss 07:34 Is this list a ranking? The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free...
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3 insights from NFL post draft wisdom of crowds rankings
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
The wisdom of crowds by aggregating subjective power rankings is a powerful NFL preseason predictor. Ed Feng describes these results and looks at three teams. 00:00 Intro 01:51 Chicago Bears 05:56 New England Patriots 10:14 Los Angeles Rams. Check out the post draft wisdom of crowds rankings: The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here: https://thepowerrank.com/ The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an...
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Matt Waldman on the NFL quarterback class of 2025
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Matt Waldman, creator of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP) and senior writer at Football Guys, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Why RSP is read by NFL people and fantasy football players (0:48). Confidence for a quarterback, and who has it in the 2025 class (8:45). Jalen Milroe (21:30). Shadeur Sanders (30:00). Playing multiple sports in high school (41:32). Caleb Williams vs Jayden Daniels (50:32). Drake Maye (55:15). The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get...
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Henry Abbott on injury free athletics, NBA
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Henry Abbott, the founder of TrueHoop NBA blog and author of the new book Ballistic: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The origin the massive blog TrueHoop (6:13). How the New England Patriots massively reduced hamstring injuries (11:44). The origin of ACL injuries in the NBA (17:50). Advice for a runner (25:22). Is static stretching dead? (34:50). Oklahoma City Thunder (36:56). The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To...
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Kevin Cole on recapping the 2025 NFL draft
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Kevin Cole, founder of Unexpected Points and former senior data scientist at PFF, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Does the draft matter in predicting the 2025 season? (1:54). Analytical draft grades based on surplus value (6:37). The asymmetry of a steal versus a reach (8:44). A team with a successful draft (11:28). A team with an awful draft (18:16). The interesting aspect of Shadeur Sanders (22:37). Detroit Lions (31:47). The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get...
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The problem with Shadeur Sanders as an NFL quarterback prospect
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Colorado QB Shadeur Sanders has been dropping in NFL mock drafts. While there could be many reasons for this decline, this episode looks at an unexpected reason: Sanders only played football in high school. The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here: https://thepowerrank.com/ The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at...
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JJ Zachariason on predicting 2025 NFL prospects
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
JJ Zachariason, the founder of Late Round Fantasy Football and football analytics expert, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The ZAP model for predicting NFL prospects (1:44). Why there are no rushing metrics for running backs (4:50). Two wins and a loss for the prospect model (10:28). The surprising wide receiver at the top of his prospect model (18:18). Three surprise players for the 2025 NFL draft (27:10). Why athleticism is important for tight ends but not wide receivers (29:33). The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site...
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Ryan Noonan on the Masters, 2025
The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Ryan Noonan, betting content manager at BetSperts, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. While we usually talk about the NFL with Ryan, he used golf analytics to break down the 2025 Masters. Highlights include: Golf analytics to predict the Masters (4:22). Strokes gained (8:14). Previewing top golfers for the 2025 Masters (15:45). 3 Masters bets (22:34). Best sports books to bet golf (29:54). The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics,...
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