I was joined by Dani Chu, a graduate student in statistics at Simon Fraser University and part of the team that won the NFL's inaugural Big Data Bowl. We talk about his fascinating research done on NFL tracking data to identify routes. We also speculate and think wishfully about the metrics that could be developed if the tracking data were to ever become public.

The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02423

The Josh Hermsmeyer article we mentioned: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-nfl-coaches-overuse-play-action-they-havent-yet/

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