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Statistical analyst and ex-NBA assistant coach Dean Oliver visits WIRED to answer sports math questions from the internet. What’s the most efficient shot to take on a basketball court? Are NFL running backs historically undervalued at the moment? Why are there more no-hitters in baseball lately? And statistically speaking who’s better: LeBron James or Michael Jordan? Answers to these questions and more await on Sports Math Support.
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Constantine Economides
Editor: Matthew Colby
Expert: Dean Oliver
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: D. Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Cloud
Gaffer: Gautam Kadian
Sound Mixer: Rebecca L. ONeil
Production Assistant: Albie Smith
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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i feel like he has a lot of knowledge but isnt answering the questions fully. Like the messi vs ronaldo example. He just said 'goals'. Didn't even elaborate ffs. Waste of a video and his knowledge sharing
Props to him for 99% of this, the football/soccer question about Messi and Ronaldo was very bland and simplistic thought. Especially when stats like xG and xA exist
Man there are so SO many metrics in football (soccer) to judge player performance than just "goals". It doesn't even account for the different roles and positions that players play. I love all of his analysis, but this one take is kinda ridiculous.
I think your resumé is more impressive if you don’t mention the team you worked for 😅
The most efficient shot is the one that goes in.
Yeah I'm not trusting a guy who calls football "soccer"
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I would like to see a sports statistician answer whether he believes individual catch-all advanced stats (EPM, LEBRON, RAPTOR, or the more antiquated PER), particularly defensive catch-all stats, are useful to determine how good individual players are.
This guy must hit some crazy multis
7:00 the pitcher win rule is so odd. it seems designed specifically for closers.
I would say an underrated WR is average separation gained on a route run. It seems rather consistently that WRs in college with poor separation numbers tend to fail in the NFL
I’m not a huge sports fan, but I am fascinated with the statistics, analysis, psychology, and other complex factors. It helps with training, recruiting , historical statistics , and other useful outcomes.
saying "MJ and LbJ" are almost the same is criminal.
Whats the fastest swim kick? Answer: dolphin kick! Not flutter!!
Hope they get Scott Steiner for the next Sports Math Support
This was a waste of time for anyone who isn't North-American. 😐
I was expecting the answer to be: the free throw
I feel like this guy has a lot of knowledge on basketball and they chose to ask him questions outside his expertise.
His soccer and baseball answers were odd and off base. No baseball statistician is attributing so much to the shift (everything we know says it’s overblown) and no soccer expert is just looking at goals.
This dude doesn't even know what DVOA is. He loses all credibility TBH
i feel enlightened!! this was a very cool interview for us non sports nerd types. Very awesome. Thank you Coach Oliver
I would love to see a pathologist! love these videos dearly
When I thought of a cool math job, I didn't think about this one. Interesting though
No, the outcome of the first free throw shot does not impact the outcome of the second free throw shot because these are two independent events.
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Highly disagree with the idea that running backs are being devalued due to a recognition shift towards the offensive line. They aren't getting paid because their production drops off a cliff within a few years after their rookie contracts, and it's cheaper to draft another one in later rounds over paying them adequately. In other words, money.
The one time I know a lot about a topic the expert fumbles the answer (Messi v. CR7). Now I'm wondering how often other experts give bad answers that I don't notice cause I don't know any better.
You said sports and it's all about basketball, too biased. There are other sports more popular than BB so you should include them as well like Football and Cricket. And when I say I football I mean real football not your American football
I hope he comes back.
The most efficient shot in basketball is a free throw. How did you lose all credibility in 20 seconds
Pitcher wins have a correlation with how good they are, but there is also a correlation with how good the rest of the team is.
Family lives in fairbanks, ak. Spent about a decade there. Can confirm, quite cold
Would have loved some Hockey stats mixed in here.
Can we PLEASE have him back?! I loved this!
I'm surprised that with the mentions of Jordan, LeBron and Jeter, that there's only like 136 comments about it lol
Edit: people also dont recognize that the Oakland As also had a pretty good pitching lineup too which def helped with getting this wins
Multiple Pitchers just kills Baseball. Never mind the Stats – if a Pitchers having a bad day or getting found out then you just replace him. And then you replace him. So its a Squad Game not a Team Game now and that is boring.
Sports is a great way to get into statistics and programming. If you're into football/soccer and want to learn some programmings and stats, there's a good book on the topic. There's some serious statistical and spatial models used in football with great success!
Not a single question about the NHL??
This is just an American Sports statistician
Dean is so cute bro
I hope the Pardon My Take Boys do something with this.
Watching this vid is the closest I’ve ever gotten to understanding why people like sports
i like how the statistician fittingly uses the word "probably" so often
WIRED IS A TRASH WOKE CORPORATION!!
I wrote a short paper for a sports analytics class arguing why the three-point shot was the most effecient (not including possibilities of fouls). Glad it was on the right path!
As a diehard Yankees fan, the notion that Jeter was a bad fielder is way overblown. Numbers don’t tell the whole story. Use your eyes!
This is something that I have always wanted to explore, thank you wired for posting this video!
Wtf was the messi vs Ronaldo answer?? No mention of playmaking, goal contributions, trophies??? What a joke
Wonder how this guy does in his Fantasy League 🤔