Wharton Moneyball: Predicting Baseball’s Future—Inside the Zips Projection System

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Wharton Moneyball: Predicting Baseball’s Future—Inside the Zips Projection System

Knowledge at Wharton

55 minutes 32 seconds

3 weeks ago

Wharton Moneyball: Predicting Baseball’s Future—Inside the Zips Projection System

Wharton's Eric Bradlow, Shane Jensen, and Adi Wyner debate Bill Belichick’s legacy in the post-Brady era, explore how analytics have reshaped baseball strategy, and speak with Dan Szymborski—Senior Writer at FanGraphs and creator of the ZiPS projection system—about forecasting player performance and team success in today’s evolving sports landscape. They also analyze the remarkable victory of 204th-ranked tennis player Valentin Vacherot in a Masters 1000 tournament, using insights from sports analytics and probability theory to uncover what his unexpected win reveals about talent, randomness, and ranking systems.

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