In this episode, I was joined by the winners of the Big Data Bowl 2021, although we recorded this well before the results were announced. We talked about their project called Weighted Assessment of Defender Effectiveness which uses tracking data to allocate credit to individual defenders in coverage on pass plays. We touch on what it was like to work on a data project with others virtually during a pandemic before going deep on methods for defensive target probability over expectation (dTPOE) and defensive catch probability over expectation (dCPOE), and ideas for credit allocation. 

Their write up is here: https://www.kaggle.com/asmaetoumi/weighted-assessment-of-defender-effectiveness

You can find the guests on twitter!

• Tony ElHabr: @TonyElHabr
• Marschall Furman: @mlfurman3
• Asmae Toumi: @asmae_toumi
• Sydney Robinson: @syd_rob25