Lauren Poe - Sports Analytics Developer, ESPN

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Lauren Poe is part of ESPN’s sports analytics team, which is responsible for metrics like Total QBR, Power Indices for Basketball, Football, and Soccer, and Strength of Record for college football. She has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma, spent time as a math teacher, and got her ESPN in the Stats and Analysis department. In this conversation, Lauren talks about…

Her career path from math teacher to ESPN

Her early years in the ESPN Stats & Analysis group

The challenges and importance of data cleaning

Steps she took to join ESPN’s analytics team

What she does as a sports analytics developer

Creating and maintaining ESPN’s metrics

Her favorite college football metrics

Communicating data well in writie

How she watches games, especially Oklahoma football

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Lauren.

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Follow Lauren on Twitter: @laurenpoe.

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To check out ESPN’s 2022 College Football Playoff predictor, click here.

To check great article explaining ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI), click here.

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