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Nick Walter

Chief Product Officer, Fliff. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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He founded the sports predictive analytics startup numberFire, which was acquired by FanDuel in 2015, where he served as Chief Product Officer. He later founded BigBrain, which was acquired by fantasy sports and betting company Fliff.

What they said3 Shows1

Everything Nick Walter said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated

Walter: RFID sensors will track players in 3D within 3-4 years

“One of the biggest sort of, like, recent trends in sports is just capturing as much data as possible through RFID sensors and things like that. So you can imagine a future of maybe three or four years from now where each player, the ball itself, is, is connect…”

Nick Walter Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 56:46 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012

MAD Disclosure

numberFire handles part of its predictive data modeling using Excel macros

“It's done on one hand, a lot of Python into R on one hand. Another part of it is actually done in Excel in a series of macros done by our chief analyst.”

Nick Walter Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 13:46 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012

MAD Disclosure

Nick Walter funded numberFire with a $100,000 game show win

“I was the one who wants to be a millionaire with, ah, Regis Philbin about two and a half years ago. I ended up winning a 100,000 dollars on the show, and I promptly quit my job and, ah, did Numberfire.”

Nick Walter Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 2:19 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Nick's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Chief Product Officer, Fliff	1	3	—	full record on the MAD Podcast →