The R^2 Podcast

Ken Pomeroy joins the podcast to talk about his ratings and some of the unique challenges of basketball analytics at the college level.

Nate Duncan, salary cap savant and host of the Dunc'd On Podcast joins me to talk about mastering the intricacies of the NBA CBA, the league's current financial climate and some early thoughts on the Golden State Warriors, Indiana Pacers and Derrick Rose.

Three Nylon Calculus writers join the podcast to discuss their models and methodologies for NBA win projections. We dig into strengths and weaknesses of the models and some of the most surprising results.

Nate Silver, Editor-in-Chief of FiveThirtyEight, joins the podcast to talk about FiveThirtyEight's new CARMELO Player Projection System and the site's team preview and win projections for the upcoming NBA season.

A relaunched and reinvigorated r-squared Podcast kicks off for the new NBA season. This episode features a conversation with Nylon Calculus managing editor Seth Partnow about some of his work this summer on positionality, bully ball and the Houston Rockets.

Former Director of Analytics for the Philadelphia 76ers, Aaron Barzilai, joins the podcast to talk about the state of basketball analytics, his career path and some of the differences between analytic work done in the public sphere and what's done behind closed doors at the team level.

Seth Partnow is back on The r-squared Podcast to talk about the challenges of measuring individual defense, some of his work with the new public SportVU data and judging the accomplishments of the Golden State Warriors.

This week's episode features a conversation with Tom Haberstroh, an NBA analyst and writer for ESPN. Tom walks us through a little bit of his background, including a behind-the-scenes look at his stint with ESPN Stats and Information. We also touch on his experiences in using analytics while writing for the enormous ESPN audience and examine some of his recent work.

This episode of The r-squared Podcast features a conversation with Matt D'Anna about his TeamSPACE charts and applications of spatial analytics.

This episode features a conversation with Neil Paine, a staff writer for FiveThirtyEight.com

This episode of The r-squared Podcast features computer scientist and sports analytics instructor at USC, Dr. Jeremy Abramson

Seth Partnow talks about some of his recent work with the new SportVU data and his point guard personality test.

A conversation with Nathan Walker of Nylon Calculus, about his Real Plus-Minus based win projections and the general strengths, weaknesses and characteristics of the plus-minus family of metrics.

A conversation with NBA.com's John Schuhmann about basketball analytics, writing with statistics and the NBA's SportVU database.

Conversations about basketball variables. Episode 8 features a conversation with Seth Partnow about True Usage, descriptive analytics and the writing process.