Rebecca Beeson hails from the UNSW-ES Bulldogs in Sydney and was selected with pick 32 in the 2016 NAB AFLW Draft. A great football brain, Beeson has good skills and can take a strong overhead mark. Beeson hasn’t missed a game across four AFLW seasons and received a Rising Star nomination in 2018. Beeson took her game to a new level in 2019, winning the Gabrielle Trainor Medal as club champion.Hear about her journey to AFLW and how she thinks the 2021 season will go

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Ep - 75 - AFLW superstar Rebecca Beeson

Check out this Data Bowl Winning entry from the team behind the fantastic website Model284https://model284.com/about-us/In this episode we talk about their big data bowl entry on defensive player coverage which you can see all the code here. https://github.com/mrichards284/BigDataBowlOf course check out their profiles and reach out. https://twitter.com/MarcRichards284https://twitter.com/SamWalczak284https://twitter.com/jackwerner94

Ep 74 - Big Data Bowl Winning Model284

In our final episode of our Big Data Bowl College series we have Jill Reiner https://twitter.com/jillhreinerWe discuss her interest in sports her time at the CMU sports analytics camp, analytics her big data bowl entry and her next plansCheck out her big data bowl entry herehttps://www.kaggle.com/reinerj1/evaluating-and-clustering-coverage-skill

Ep 73 - Big Data Bowl Winning College Jill Reiner

In this episode we chat to one of this years Big Data Bowl winning team from Wharton. Have you ever wondered if we can evaluate players who get into good positions but don't get thrown the ball? Well wonder no more hear about how their target agnostic evaluation tackles this problem and more!You can look at Zach, Ryan, Zach and Sarah entry belowhttps://www.kaggle.com/zachdrapkin/target-agnostic-evaluation-of-cbs-wrsTheir contact details are below it would be silly not to reach outhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-bradlow/https://twitter.com/zachdrapkinhttps://twitter.com/ryanzgrosshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-hu1/

Ep 72 - Big Data Bowl Winning College Team Wharton

In this very special episode of Chilling With Charlie hear from a professional NRL players views on preparation, the differences between origin and club level play and coaching. Find out what media commentators could talk about better and much more!

Ep 71 - Christian Welch - Storm and QLD superstar

In this episode we talk to https://twitter.com/EllaSummer17 We talk about mentorship, her work with the Diamondbacks and using PFF data to help the UVA football team. We of course discuss her fantastic Big Data Bowl entry as well which you can read here. https://www.kaggle.com/es4vr17/random-player-effects-defensive-backs

Ep 70 - Big Data Bowl College Winner 2021 Ella Summer

Paul J. van Staden is a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He earned his PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Pretoria in 2014. His research focuses on statistical distribution theory, in particular the construction of generalized families of probability distributions in the quantile statistical universe. With respect to sports analytics, his research interests include team and player performance measures in cricket, modeling of score distributions in rugby and cricket, and rating and ranking systems. He has furthermore collaborated in various research projects ranging from tongue protrusion and bite mark analysis in forensic pathology to oral and dental diseases in cheetahs.Don't forget to sign up to the datathon and get access to high quality betfair pricing data(https://www.betfair.com.au/hub/australian-open-datathon/) For those with an interest in horses also check out (https://www.betfair.com.au/hub/horse-racing-tips/)

Ep 69 - Paul van Staden Tennis, Cricket and Rugby

Steve provides tennis tips and previews tennis matches to the public. He keeps one of the largest public databases of tennis tips and has a long track record of profitable bets.Website: acetennispreviews.comTwitter: @Ace_Previews as well as @EatSleepTennisInstagram: @est.showFacebook: started a new private group 'Eat Sleep Tennis Show'For Betfair, he provides tournament previews for all the big tournaments on The Hub in 2021, as well as daily previews during grand slams.To check out more previews through a search engine called PUBLC.com - support Steves work can be shown by creating a free account and clicking through to my previews via the PUBLC link.Don't forget to sign up to the datathon and get access to high quality betfair pricing data for your tennis models (https://www.betfair.com.au/hub/australian-open-datathon/)

Ep 68 - Steve from Ace Previews

Kaushik leads the data science team at Betfair. Check out the betfair hub (https://www.betfair.com.au/hub/)Don't forget to sign up to the datathon and get access to high quality betfair pricing data(https://www.betfair.com.au/hub/australian-open-datathon/) For those with an interest in horses also check out (https://www.betfair.com.au/hub/horse-racing-tips/)

Ep 67 - Kaushik Lakshman Lead Data Scientist Betfair

Andrew Jones has carved out an impressive career in sports. From leading the charge at Cricket Australia and launching the Big Bash to being CEO of Cricket New South Wales he has done it all and everything in between.Check out his current profile at UNSW as president of the cricket club. He is a wonderful character and has some interesting thoughts.http://www.cricket.unsw.edu.au/Profiles/andrewjones.htm

EP - 66 Andrew Jones - President UNSW Cricket

Sam has worked in football analytics for several years with clients in both the pro and media spaces. he works mostly with player tracking and player event data to provide tactical, performance and recruitment insights. He is currently a graduate student at Victoria University researching the intersection of Sport Science and Sports Analytics and the Director of On-Field Analytics at York9 FC.Liked this episode and want to read up more on the things Sam has discussed?Corner kick article from David Quartey:https://davidquartey.medium.com/corner-kicks-can-be-mysterious-but-some-are-decodable-fac175358ea7My two Getting into Sports Analytics pieces:https://medium.com/@GregorydSam/getting-into-sports-analytics-ddf0e90c4ccehttps://medium.com/@GregorydSam/getting-into-sports-analytics-2-0-129dfb87f5beThe paper and video on run identification:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Q7JBMu8m4https://static.capabiliaserver.com/frontend/clients/barca/wp_prod/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/40ba07f4-ready-player-run-barcelona.pdf

Ep 65 - Sam Gregory - Masters Student and Director of On Field Analytics

Want to hear about the hot hand in NBA from someone who has worked with the Dallas during their finals run?Want to hear from the author of Mathletics?In this episode we talk to Wayne Winston about his time at Dallas, his ideas around building a soccer prediction model, an NFL prediction model and how are gambling odds tied in? Well just listen and find out.Check out his resourcesExcelwithwayne.com (videos on Excel) and( Excel book) https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Analysis-Business-Modeling-Skills/dp/1509305882/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=wayne+winston+page&qid=1595502771&sr=8-1​.

Ep 64 - Wayne Winston

Chilling with not everyones favourite analytics writer Ben Baldwin, but what is it about the numbers that have gotten Ben into some of the most interesting twitter debates?Whats up with Rodgers?Why don't the Seahawks play more analytically?How cool is his new project https://github.com/guga31bb/nflfastR-dataOne of the best things about Ben is how he not only encourages but promotes more people to get into the NFL analytics space/community.Check how the guide for using R with NFL datahttps://twitter.com/benbbaldwin/status/1274034954133999616Check out his twitter profile for great takes.https://twitter.com/benbbaldwin

Ep 63 Ben Baldwin - Seattle Seahawks fan/writer The Athletic

Nick is a sports analytics favourite, always happy to help out and does some of the best twitch data science videos. Yeshttps://m.twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci/profileHe also happens to work for the Reds in the MLB we discuss how he got into sports and he gives tips to up and comers.

Ep 62 Nick Wan - Data Scientist Reds

Martin does some of the most interesting tennis analysis online. You can check out his blog and a really interesting post below.https://martiningram.github.io/surface-serve-return/In this podcast we discuss not only player ratings, but where Martin gets his data from and the kind of online material he reads to generate interesting ideas. Links belowTennis Abstract: http://www.tennisabstract.com/Jeff Sackmann's github with tennis data: https://github.com/JeffSackmannStats On the T: http://on-the-t.com/Hidden Game of Tennis: https://hiddengameoftennis.com/

Ep 61 Martin Ingram

World's best dog interviews people that she finds interesting in sports analytics Support the pod and #fitzRoy https://www.patreon.com/roberto_boberto https://twitter.com/CharliePodcast

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