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John Tobias - Sports Statistics Professor & TV Statistician

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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

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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

  continue reading

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