Episode 5: Dan Rosenheck

Published: April 6, 2015, 4:13 a.m.

Dan Rosenheck - Professional Services Correspondent at The Economist

Summary: An Opening Day's celebration of baseball and statistics

 

Interview Timeline 

- Introduction to Dan Rosenheck

- (01:50) Spring training stats, do they matter?

- (10:55) Stat Cast, what is it?

- (15:3 0) Catchers make pitchers better

- (21:53) High stakes fantasy league

- (30:00) Meaningless vs worthless statistics

- (32:06) Looking for the baseline to measure if adding spring training had a effect

- (38:50) Capping off the importance of spring training

- (41:20) How Dan got into statistics

- (50:15) Presenting results through twitter