5 - Alex Stern, Algorithms in the War Room Sports on Paper

I was joined by Alex Stern, a current data science master's student and football analytics researcher at the University of Virginia. We talk about his Big Data Bowl project that goes to beyond the box score to quantify the value of defensive backs. The work extends upon the winning Big Data Bowl project from last year to include some cool Bayesian hierarchical models.



The project: https://www.kaggle.com/acs4wq/algorithms-in-the-war-room