Lauren Poe - Sports Analytics Developer, ESPN

31/08/2022 31 min Episodio 52

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Lauren Poe is part of ESPN’s sports analytics team, which is responsible for metrics like Total QBR, Power Indices for Basketball, Football, and Soccer, and Strength of Record for college football. She has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma, spent time as a math teacher, and got her ESPN in the Stats and Analysis department. In this conversation, Lauren talks about…Her career path from math teacher to ESPNHer early years in the ESPN Stats & Analysis groupThe challenges and importance of data cleaningSteps she took to join ESPN’s analytics teamWhat she does as a sports analytics developerCreating and maintaining ESPN’s metricsHer favorite college football metricsCommunicating data well in writieHow she watches games, especially Oklahoma footballThen, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Lauren.Show LinksFollow Lauren on Twitter: @laurenpoe.Follow the Women in Sports Data on Twitter: @WinSportsData.To check out the Women in Sports Data website, click here.To check out ESPN’s 2022 College Football Playoff predictor, click here.To check great article explaining ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI), click here.Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn.