The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng

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00:00 Intro

00:19 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

01:37 Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger

02:54 Duel in the Sun by John Brant

04:10 The Miracle of St. Anthony by Adrian Wojnarowski

05:46 The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss

07:34 Is this list a ranking?

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

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The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6

The wisdom of crowds by aggregating subjective power rankings is a powerful NFL preseason predictor. Ed Feng describes these results and looks at three teams.

00:00 Intro

01:51 Chicago Bears

05:56 New England Patriots

10:14 Los Angeles Rams.

Check out the post draft wisdom of crowds rankings: https://thepowerrank.com/nfl/

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

https://thepowerrank.com/

The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook that digs deeper into the wisdom of crowds for making preseason NFL predictions. To check it out on Spotify, click here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6

Matt Waldman, creator of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP) and senior writer at Football Guys, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Why RSP is read by NFL people and fantasy football players (0:48). Confidence for a quarterback, and who has it in the 2025 class (8:45). Jalen Milroe (21:30). Shadeur Sanders (30:00). Playing multiple sports in high school (41:32). Caleb Williams vs Jayden Daniels (50:32). Drake Maye (55:15).

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

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Henry Abbott, the founder of TrueHoop NBA blog and author of the new book Ballistic: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The origin the massive blog TrueHoop (6:13). How the New England Patriots massively reduced hamstring injuries (11:44). The origin of ACL injuries in the NBA (17:50). Advice for a runner (25:22). Is static stretching dead? (34:50). Oklahoma City Thunder (36:56).

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

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Kevin Cole, founder of Unexpected Points and former senior data scientist at PFF, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Does the draft matter in predicting the 2025 season? (1:54). Analytical draft grades based on surplus value (6:37). The asymmetry of a steal versus a reach (8:44). A team with a successful draft (11:28). A team with an awful draft (18:16). The interesting aspect of Shadeur Sanders (22:37). Detroit Lions (31:47).

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

https://thepowerrank.com/

The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6

Colorado QB Shadeur Sanders has been dropping in NFL mock drafts. While there could be many reasons for this decline, this episode looks at an unexpected reason: Sanders only played football in high school.

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

https://thepowerrank.com/

The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6

JJ Zachariason, the founder of Late Round Fantasy Football and football analytics expert, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The ZAP model for predicting NFL prospects (1:44). Why there are no rushing metrics for running backs (4:50). Two wins and a loss for the prospect model (10:28). The surprising wide receiver at the top of his prospect model (18:18). Three surprise players for the 2025 NFL draft (27:10). Why athleticism is important for tight ends but not wide receivers (29:33).

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

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Ryan Noonan, betting content manager at BetSperts, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. While we usually talk about the NFL with Ryan, he used golf analytics to break down the 2025 Masters. Highlights include: Golf analytics to predict the Masters (4:22). Strokes gained (8:14). Previewing top golfers for the 2025 Masters (15:45). 3 Masters bets (22:34). Best sports books to bet golf (29:54).

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

https://thepowerrank.com/

The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6

Before the tournament, I predicted Michigan State would have a difficult time making the Final Four based on a surprising predictor of tournament performance. Now, I revisit that claim and look at Sparty's chances in the South region starting on Friday night.

The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of bets and analytics, sign up for the free newsletter here:

https://thepowerrank.com/

The 60 Minute Guide to the 2024 Football Season is an audiobook with two deep dive, analytics for sports betting stories. Think John Oliver at Bet Bash. To check it out on Spotify, click here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7EJkoJXlF7LCiy5ekOt2c6

The 8 seeds in the 2025 NCAA tournament are particularly good. Edward Egros identifies which of these teams could take down a 1 seed this weekend.

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