Hot Takedown

By FiveThirtyEight, 538, Neil Paine, Geoff Foster, Sara Ziegler

Hot Takedown is the weekly sports podcast from FiveThirtyEight. On it, the crew uses numbers to dissect the week in sports, taking down some silly hot takes in the process.... more

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How many episodes does Hot Takedown have?

The podcast currently has 396 episodes available.

Hot Takedown episodes:

July 21, 2015 Hot Takedown - Unstoppable Greinke, The Greatest Basketball Season Ever, And Baseball Brain Data
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss Zack Greinke's scoreless inning streak, Elena Delle Donne's amazing basketball season, and brain data for baseball.
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58min
July 14, 2015 Hot Takedown - A Special Stat-School Edition
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss three ways to measure batting: batting average, OPS (on-base plus slugging), wRC+ (Weighted Runs Created).
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51min
July 07, 2015 Hot Takedown - The Greatest Dynasty Of All, NBA Free Agency, and All Star Baseball
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss whether U.S. women's national soccer team is a dynasty, review NBA free agency and turn to the MLB All Star game.
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58min
June 30, 2015 Hot Takedown - Women's World Cup, Wimbledon, And Crazy Free Agency
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss the U.S. women's national team lineup, preview Wimbledon and discuss the weirdness of the NBA's free agency.
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51min
June 26, 2015 What's The Point Teaser - Guest: Neil deGrasse Tyson
FiveThirtyEight has a new podcast! Here's part of the first episode of What's The Point -- small interviews about big data. Like what you hear? Find the full episode on iTunes
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18min
June 23, 2015 Hot Takedown - U.S. Women March On, NBA Draft, Is A-Rod A G.O.A.T.?
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss the Women's World Cup; what analytics say about the NBA draft; and A-Rod's legacy.
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56min
June 16, 2015 Hot Takedown - Hockey's Modern Dynasty, NBA Finals, And A Baseball Hacking Scandal!
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss the Blackhawks win; a big data scandal in baseball; and Lebron's dominance.
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51min
June 09, 2015 Hot Takedown - LeBron Goes It Alone, Serena's Dominance, WWC Update And Nate vs. A 12-Year-Old
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss whether Lebron can carry the Cavs; Serena Williams's 20th slam; and the start of the Women's World Cup.
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54min
June 04, 2015 Hot Takedown - WWC Bonus: Allison McCann with Julie Foudy, Christen Press, and Kelley O'Hara
A special episode with two interviews FiveThirtyEight's Allison McCann did recently previewing the FIFA Women's World Cup.
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32min
June 02, 2015 Hot Takedown - Blatter's Out, WWC, NBA Finals, And The Astros' Turnaround
Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin on Sepp Blatter's resignation on the eve of the Women's World Cup; LeBron's chances in the NBA finals; and how the Astros got good.
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1h 4min

FAQs about Hot Takedown:

How many episodes does Hot Takedown have?

The podcast currently has 396 episodes available.