Throughout the month of March this blog will be publishing interviews with each of the four panelists that were on the 2013 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference’s Soccer Analytics panel. The first interview in this series with Chris Anderson and David Sally was published last week. This week’s interview is with ESPN Stats and Information analyst Albert Larcada. Albert has worked for ESPN since earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Central Florida, and has helped them build and maintain a number of analytical models within ESPN including the Soccer Power Index. I sat down with Albert ahead of the Sloan Conference’s soccer-specific panel to discuss ESPN’s models, how they integrate their data into storylines, where ESPN is looking to grow with their recent job posting within Albert’s group, and where he thinks the conference can continue to grow in the coming years. …read more
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