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Nate Silver: belief

21 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players

“I think things like classifying strategies in soccer and football, where you have a lot of things happening at once, and you can’t have your nice little regression model, as compared to, say, baseball, where baseball’s very easy to represent with classical statistics.”

— Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
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belief
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21 Aug 2024
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Conversations with Tyler

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…But you could have more data if you put money into it, right? Yes. I think it’ll help more in the sports where they’re less linear. I think things like classifying strategies in soccer and football, where you have a lot of things happening at once, and you can’t have your nice little regression model, as compared to, say, baseball, where baseball’s very easy to represent with classical statistics. I think probably there’ll also be ways where it enhances the sports viewing experience in different ways. I think it’ll help sports video games a lot. Are hockey and combat sports going to use more analytics in the future?…

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