Richard Whittall and Devang Desai go through their Vieiras and Vidukas, and Richard interviews Seattle Sounders performance analyst Ravi Ramineni on his impressions of the Sloan MIT Sports Analytics conference. To round up, Sean Keay joins the Panel to talk Major League Soccer First Kick.
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You should rename the podcast “Analyze This”
Darn, its already taken
I really don’t mind the analytics talk – you guys are hitting an area that nobody else is in podcast form – we can get 20+ other standard soccer podcasts out there with opinions (mostly from people who have only skimmed the match or watched off a shitty stream no less).
5 years ago the basketball analytics community was tiny but at least there were sites like 82games.com, basketballvalue, and the APBR forum. THere isn’t anything for soccer really.
Why should we rename the Podcast?