Sports analytics is a booming industry with new technologies allowing for the parsing of ever more sophisticated statistics. Analysts can now examine the height and the force of a gymnast tumbling pass, the probability of going for it on a 4th down in football, actually working out, and the arc of the best swing for a baseball player. Analytics are also used in the conditioning of athletes, particularly for all the baseball players preparing for the start of the MLB's spring training. Analytics is the focus of this episode of stats and stories with guest Alexandre Andorra.

Alexandre Andorra is a Senior Applied Scientist for the Miami Marlins as well a Bayesian modeler at the PyMC Labs consultancy firm that he cofounded as well as the host the podcast dedicated to Bayesian inference “Learning Bayesian Statistics” His areas of expertise include Hierarchical Models, Gaussian Processes and Causal Inference.