The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
The Football Analytics Show uses data and analytics to make predictions on games and break down match ups. The show covers both college football and the NFL.
Episodes
John Reeder, creator of the Risk of Ruin podcast that is This American Life for risk takers, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include:
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Spanky, a professional sports bettor and creator of Bet Bash, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include:
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The wisdom of crowds by aggregating subjective power rankings is a powerful NFL preseason predictor. Ed Feng describes these results and looks at three teams.
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01:51 Chicago Bears
05:56 New England Patriots
10:14 Los Angeles Rams.
Check out the post draft wisdom of crowds rankings: https://thepowerrank.com/nfl/
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Matt Waldman, creator of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP) and senior writer at Football Guys, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Why RSP is read by NFL people and fantasy football players (0:48). Read more
Henry Abbott, the founder of TrueHoop NBA blog and author of the new book Ballistic: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The origin the massive blog TrueHoop (6:13). <...
Kevin Cole, founder of Unexpected Points and former senior data scientist at PFF, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: Does the draft matter in predicting the 2025 season? (1:54). Read more
Colorado QB Shadeur Sanders has been dropping in NFL mock drafts. While there could be many reasons for this decline, this episode looks at an unexpected reason: Sanders only played football in high school.
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JJ Zachariason, the founder of Late Round Fantasy Football and football analytics expert, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: The ZAP model for predicting NFL prospects (1:44). Read more
Ryan Noonan, betting content manager at BetSperts, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. While we usually talk about the NFL with Ryan, he used golf analytics to break down the 2025 Masters. Highlights include: Golf analytics to predict the Masters ...
Before the tournament, I predicted Michigan State would have a difficult time making the Final Four based on a surprising predictor of tournament performance. Now, I revisit that claim and look at Sparty's chances in the South region starting on Friday night.
The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturda...
The 8 seeds in the 2025 NCAA tournament are particularly good. Edward Egros identifies which of these teams could take down a 1 seed this weekend.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
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Edward Egros breaks down this team that shoots a lot of threes and has a nice path to the Sweet Sixteen. This team also has a unique advantage the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
Duke looked like the favorite to win the NCAA tournament until the Cooper Flagg injury. Edward Egros looks at the betting implications of that injury and breaks down this talented team.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:<...
Points per possession is the bedrock of basketball analytics. But can we do even better? This episode looks at three point defense and how it impacts Tennessee and Houston.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
Gonzaga doesn't seem like an elite team with 8 losses this season. However, Edward Egros makes the argument for Gonzaga as a championship contender through two key pieces of information.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here...
The numbers love the SEC conference, but will this lead to NCAA tournament success? Edward Egros uses The Power Rank team rankings to evaluate the SEC and breaks down three teams.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter here:
...The human brain does not deal with randomness well, as explained in this episode through the light detection experiment. This has implications for your 2025 NCAA tournament bracket.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket (which you should use for every game), sign...
The preseason AP poll is a remarkable predictor of the NCAA tournament despite not having any access to data from the current season. It also can identify overrated teams, and host Ed Feng discusses one possible team for 2025.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracke...
How well do the college basketball team rankings at The Power Rank predict winners in the NCAA tournament? These predictive analytics are compared to the closing market over a huge data set.
Bracket Wisdom is the daily podcast series on The Football Analytics Show to get you ready to win your March Madness pool. To get my free cheat sheet for filling out your bracket, sign up for the free newsletter h...
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