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Football Analytics with Python & R
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Football Analytics with Python & R

by Eric A. Eager, Richard A. Erickson
August 2023
Beginner to intermediate
352 pages
8h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Authors

Eric A. Eager is the vice president and partner at SumerSports, a football analytics startup founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones and his son, Jack Jones. Eric currently hosts the SumerSports Show with former Falcons General Manager and two-time NFL Executive of the Year Thomas Dimitroff. Prior to joining Sumer, he founded the industry-leading analytics group at Pro Football Focus (PFF), which is owned by former Bengals wide receiver and current Sunday Night Football color commentator, Cris Collinsworth.

During his career, Eric has built tools used by all 32 NFL teams, over 100 college football teams, and various media entities. His simulation model has been used by NBC’s Steve Kornacki during his “Road to the Playoffs” segment on NBC since 2020; he was also a part of the Fox NFL Game of the Week broadcast with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, before they left for ESPN in 2022. His former podcast, the PFF Forecast, was the most popular football analytics podcast in the world when he left the show.

Eric studied applied mathematics and mathematical biology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he wrote his PhD thesis on how stochasticity and nonlinear processes affect population dynamics. For the first six years of his career, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, where he published more than 25 peer-reviewed research papers on the interface of mathematics, biology, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Six of ...

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