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21 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
“If you talked to Sunny, he’d say maybe two-thirds of the teams are fairly smart, and one-third of them are still dumb. I think we’ve probably passed the low-hanging fruit from Moneyball gains stage.”
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…Are hockey and combat sports going to use more analytics in the future? One of my friends, named Sunny Mehta, is an analyst for the Florida Panthers and assistant GM, and he’s an analytics guy, former poker player, former jazz musician, and just won the Stanley Cup in Florida. It’s transitioning in all the sports, I think. Hockey probably, of the big four in the US, is considered the most old-school. Look, the market’s fairly efficient, and we’re long past the old boys’ network in most of the sports, probably in hockey. If you talked to Sunny, he’d say maybe two-thirds of the teams are fairly smart, and one-third of them are still dumb. I think we’ve probably passed the low-hanging fruit from Moneyball gains stage. Here’s a question I was asked during a Jane Street talk once. What is the most underrated basketball statistic for judging a player?…
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