Schwimer: Three NBA Teams Asked to Outsource Analytics to Big League Advance
Michael Schwimer · Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72) · Oct 15, 2018 · at 45:12
Michael Schwimer, founder of Big League Advance, describes inbound interest from professional sports franchises seeking to access BLA's data science talent.
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“And two NBA, actually three NBA teams now called us and wanted to fire their entire advanced analytics department and have us be the analytics department for those teams remotely.”
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