Shades of Orange

When filling out your bracket, should you just go with your gut over employing a strategy based on historical data/advanced stats? Its called March Madness for a reason. But it never hurts to be well informed. In this pod, the case is made for why considering certain strategic variables combined with utilizing the best predictive models will only increase your probability of bracket success. Using this potent combo of #bestbracketpractices, which 2018 teams in each region/round are value picks? Which tourney teams have the highest probability to make your bracket look brilliant? In this pod we tackle all of this just in time for the magical madness of brackets and basketball to place a spell on us one more time.

Day 2 at the 2018 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is recapped here. How is the NBA doing financially? How are analytics utilized in championship organizations? Is the talent in the NBA the best it has ever been? How will Artificial Intelligence transform the game of basketball in the next decade? Who began this whole pace & space revolution in the NBA? Does Hinkie's infamous Process really work? These and many more provocative questions were explored during this thought-provoking pod.

Talk Data To Me Part 1 recaps day one the 2018 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Why do analytics matter? What are the next trends in the sports world? Will sports gambling become legal in all 50 states and what does that mean for the NBA? Should the NBA change its current playoff format and how does the NBA go about making rule changes? What similarities do the two global games (hoops & futbol) have in common? How will NBA teams use analytics in preparation for the 2019 NBA draft? These questions and more are explored in this jam packed edition of all things #SSAC18.