Advanced Football Analytics

Jim Pagels (Forbes, FiveThirtyEight, Bloomberg) is on the show to discuss his recent research on NFL TV ratings. Jim explains how overlapping seasons for different sports create a negative crossover effect on viewership and proposes some schedule changes that could fix the issue. He also discusses NFL survivor pool strategy, a new way of using EPA to score your fantasy football league and closes out the episode with a discussion of where to find value in NFL futures bets.