John Tobias - Sports Statistics Professor & TV Statistician
John Tobias is a professor of sports statistics and analytics at UNC-Charlotte, and he also works as a TV statistician for a variety of sports. In this conversation, John talks about… - His unconventional path to working in both TV and the academic world - What a statistician does during a broadcast - How to choose what stats are given to talent - Challenges to live TV - How advanced stats factor into TV - Communicating stats concisely in broadcasts - Components that go into teaching sports statistics - Advice for students and people interested in a sports analytics career - Diversity (or lack thereof) in the sports analytics world - Suggestions for making the field more diverse - His favorite event he’s covered working in TV Show links - Follow John on Twitter and Instagram - John’s bio at UNC-Charlotte - Boston Globe article on diversity in sports analytics - Strength in Numbers charity Listen here or wherever you get podcasts: Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher , TuneIn
