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Podcast: The Football Analytics Show by The Power Rank and Ed Feng
Episode: Dr. Nick Giffen on college basketball analytics in 2025
Description: Dr. Nick Giffen, a mathematics Ph.D. from North Carolina State that works at the Action Network, joins me for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include: His journey to math Ph.D. and then sports betting (1:11). College basketball player and team projections (7:14). The aspect of college basketball predictions that a math PhD does manually (9:50). Mathematical distribution of player points (16:25). Gonzaga (18:05). March Madness rollover strategy (20:12). NFL player in-game predictions (24:53). The Football Analytics Show is presented by The Power Rank, a site devoted to predictive analytics for football betting. To get 5-Nugget Saturday, a curated list of...