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Jeff Bennett - VP, ESPN Stats & Information

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Jeff Bennett oversees ESPN’s Stats & Information Group, which produces statistics and analytics that power all of ESPN’s platforms. Having been at ESPN for 25 years, Jeff’s career parallels the rise in sports data and analytics, and he is one of the most influential people in mainstream sports stats over the last quarter century. In this podcast, he discusses…

- What ESPN’s Stats & Information Group does
- How his interest in sports and numbers developed
- Joining the ESPN research team and working shows like SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight
- Starting the Sports Analytics team
- Developing metrics like Total QBR
- Working with the NFL’s NGS data
- The future of sports analytics

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