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Podcast: The FiveThirtyEight Crash Course In Pitching Stats

Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 25, 2015), another edition of “Stat School” — in which our resident expert Neil Paine teaches us the basics of statistical […]

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Podcast: The FiveThirtyEight Crash Course In Pitching Stats

Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 25, 2015), another edition of “Stat School” — in which our resident expert Neil Paine teaches us the basics of statistical […]

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Podcast: A Premier League Preview; The NFL Gets Microchips

Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 18, 2015), we follow up on the soccer metric WhoScored. Last week, we cited it as a reliable metric. This week, […]

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Podcast: A Premier League Preview; The NFL Gets Microchips

Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 18, 2015), we follow up on the soccer metric WhoScored. Last week, we cited it as a reliable metric. This week, […]

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