These are the show notes for Episode #10 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guest Jonathan Gruhl. This interview was recorded on 10 March 2014 from my Atlanta office.Jonathan Gruhl is a fellow Stanford engineering graduate who has applied qualitative analysis to a variety of fields in his career, from management consulting to finance to sports. He […]
These are the show notes for Episode #10 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guest Oliver Page. This interview was recorded on 21 February 2014 from my Atlanta office.Oliver Page is a sports trader with experience at a number of firms in the United Kingdom and interests in applying academic research and mathematical concepts to sports statistics […]
These are the show notes for Episode #9 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guests Simon Farrant and Devin Pleuler of OptaPro. This interview was recorded on 7 February 2014 from Opta Sports headquarters in central London.I was in London to attend the first OptaPro Analytics Forum, which brought together football analytics researchers who made use […]
These are the show notes for Episode #8 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Zach Slaton of Forbes.com. This interview was recorded on 11 January 2014 from the Atlanta office.Zach is an engineer by training and the proprietor of the soccer analytics blog A Beautiful Numbers Game. He has since worked for the last two years […]
These are the show notes for Episode #7 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, recorded on 6 December 2013 from the Atlanta office. This episode is a panel discussion of the 2014 World Cup Finals draw which occurred the same day.Joining me on the panel are Albert Larcada, Bobby McMahon, and Axel Torres. Albert Larcada works in […]
These are the show notes for Episode #6 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Dr Geir Jordet of the Norwegian Centre of Football Excellence. This interview was recorded on 12 November 2013 from the Atlanta office.Dr Jordet is a professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and the head of the Psychology division […]
These are the show notes for Episode #5 of the Soccermetrics Podcasts, with featured guest David Sally, co-author of The Numbers Game. This episode was recorded on 7 November 2013 from the Atlanta office.David Sally is a behavioral economist by training (Ph.D, University of Chicago) and a visiting professor at Tuck School of Management at Dartmouth […]
These are show notes for Episode #4 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Murray Innes. This interview was actually part of the video interviews for the Integral magazine project (of blessed memory) and is included here as additional content for Podcast subscribers. The interview was recorded on 8 August 2013, one week before the 2013-14 […]
These are show notes for Episode #3 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Damien Comolli. This interview was actually part of the video interviews for the Integral magazine project (of blessed memory) and is included here as additional content for Podcast subscribers. The interview was recorded on 8 August 2013, one week before the […]
After the initial flurry of episodes into the Soccermetrics Podcast feed, I’ve settled on a bi-weekly release schedule for future episodes.The objective of the Soccermetrics Podcasts is to have deeper conversations with a guest than the typical football podcast, which requires a lot of background preparation. A bi-weekly schedule appears to strike a balance between […]
