Paul Sabin - ESPN Senior Sports Analytics Specialist
Paul Sabin is a Senior Sports Analytics Specialist at ESPN, where he works on various metrics as part of ESPN’s Sports Analytics group. In this episode, Paul will discuss… - What his job entails at ESPN - The college football title game, through the lens of metrics like Total QBR and Football Power Index - Creating the Player Impact Rating - Challenges of capturing a human element in ESPN’s College Playoff Predictor - Communicating uncertainty - Midseason takeaways from ESPN’s Basketball Power Index - How an engineering class pushed him toward a stats career - Advice for people entering the sports analytics industry - Being a Nationals fan during their World Series run Show links- Twitter: @SabinAnalytics, @ESPNStatsInfo - ESPN’s Sports Analytics home page - Football Power Index - College football Total QBR - College football Player Impact Rating - Basketball Power Index - Midseason BPI takeaways
