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episode 749: #749 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - The Hidden Statistics That Control The NBA
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist, economist and author.
Basketball is one of the most popular sports on the planet. Seth has used advanced AI to statistically analyse everything about the players, their backgrounds, hand-span, height, first names and more to uncover some of the wildest trends in the game.
Expect to learn what percentage of American men over 7 feet tall are in the NBA, why there is a huge outlier of the most common name of all NBA players, who the best height-adjusted player of all time is, just how important genetics are in basketball, whether the Draft is effective and much more...
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