My Car Died In Worcester with Aaron Schatz

About this episode

Drew and Roth discuss football analytics with guest Aaron Schatz, touching on the NFL draft and listener questions.

Drew and Roth are joined, for the first time ever, by Aaron Schatz, Chief Analytics Officer at FTN Fantasy, ESPN NFL writer, and founder of Football Outsiders! Football data companies are being screwed over by venture capital and aligning with gambling interests. How does Aaron feel about this shift? Then, this year’s NFL draft class is awful. How will teams deal? How does Aaron feel about AJ Brown coming to his Patriots? Finally, they open up the funbag to answer real questions from Distraction listeners. Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0! Stuff We Talked About Drew “Two Cavities” Magary & David “Sleep Injury” Roth Fantasy (not the Swords & Sandals stuff) Proud Worcesterites Faintly remembering some guys Praxis on the O-Line Making noises at Jim Nantz Sponsors - Storyworth , where you can save up to $20 Credits - Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts - Subscribe to Defector ! About The Show The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Drew Magary, David Roth

Guest: Aaron Schatz

Topics covered

• NFL draft
• football analytics
• gambling
• listener questions
• sports culture

Keywords

• NFL
• football
• analytics
• gambling
• listener questions
• AJ Brown
• Worcester

Sponsors

Storyworth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FTN Fantasy, ESPN, Football Outsiders, Defector Media

Places: Worcester

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