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Hot Takedown - Bracketology, Chip Kelly, and Chris Borland
Hot Takedown - Vintage Michigan State, Fixing the Women's Tournament, Trade Durant?
Hot Takedown - Finally, Four; The Cubs Sit Their Spring Star; Fixing the PAT
Hot Takedown - Emergency Final Four Pod!
Hot Takedown - Duke Does It Again; Opening Day; Hedging Hockey
Hot Takedown - Emergency Pod! UConn's Win, Auriemma vs. Wooden, Will Anyone Catch the Huskies?
Hot Takedown - Spieth's Dominance; NBA MVP; Nate Silver Talks to a Stats Skeptic
Hot Takedown - Clippers' Collapse, Nate Silver on Rangers' Squeakers, MLB Embraces Statcast
Hot Takedown - Blatter's Out, WWC, NBA Finals, And The Astros' Turnaround
Hot Takedown - LeBron Goes It Alone, Serena's Dominance, WWC Update And Nate vs. A 12-Year-Old
Hot Takedown - Hockey's Modern Dynasty, NBA Finals, And A Baseball Hacking Scandal!
Hot Takedown - U.S. Women March On, NBA Draft, Is A-Rod A G.O.A.T.?
Hot Takedown - Women's World Cup, Wimbledon, And Crazy Free Agency
Hot Takedown - The Greatest Dynasty Of All, NBA Free Agency, and All Star Baseball
Hot Takedown - A Special Stat-School Edition
Hot Takedown - Unstoppable Greinke, The Greatest Basketball Season Ever, And Baseball Brain Data
Hot Takedown - Measuring Gender, Boston Says No, Soccer Woes
Hot Takedown - Rousey The Outlier, MLB Trades, Track Doping
Hot Takedown - We Tell John Starks His Advanced Stats, Streaking Blue Jays
Hot Takedown - A Statsy Premier League Preview; The NFL Gets Microchips
Hot Takedown - A Crash Course In Pitching Stats
Baseline #2 - Fifteen Minutes In Flushing
Baseline #4 - Fifteen Minutes In Flushing
Baseline #5 - A Final(s) Fifteen Minutes In Flushing
Baseline: Tennis In The Rain
Hot Takedown - Pats' Cheating; Djoker The GoAT; Cespedes MVP?
Hot Takedown - Nate Silver Defends Elo
Hot Takedown - Injured QBs; The Nationals Implode; A NWSL Finals Preview
Hot Takedown - MLB Playoff Preview, Maya Moore's Legacy, The Kick-pocalypse
Hot Takedown - QB Stat School Is In Session
Hot Takedown - Hello CARMELO, Bunched NFL Wins, And A Startup Hockey League
Hot Takedown - World Series Super Sabermetrics Special
Hot Takedown - Mets' Blown Chances, Kobe Sucks, New Zealand's Rugby Prowess
Hot Takedown - College Football's Messy Rankings, Gold Glove Analytics, Julie Foudy
Hot Takedown - Peyton's End Of The Road, Patriots' Age, Chelsea Sucks
Hot Takedown - Perfect Panthers, Wonderful Warriors, Little Leicester
Hot Takedown - Dominant UConn, Prince Porzingis, NCAA Academics
Hot Takedown - NBA Stat School
Hot Takedown - NFL Playoffs, Ultimate Frisbee Stats, Millennials Ruining Basketball
Hot Takedown - College Football Final, Wild Card Surprises, Outstanding Ovechkin
Hot Takedown - NFL Craziness, Dugout Decisions, Super Simmons
Hot Takedown - Brady's Kryptonite, Bye Bye Blatt, Fixing In Tennis
Hot Takedown - Super Bowl Statistics Special
Hot Takedown - Denver Defense, Cam's Petulance, Leicester's Lead
Hot Takedown - NCAA Parity, All Star Defense, Trading Trout
Canadian Hockey Is In The Doldrums
The Warriors' Haters Are Wrong
Live From Sloan w/ Morey And Battier
It's March Madness Everybody!
There's A Dearth Of Data In The WNBA
Syracuse Is A Spring Miracle
It's The Narrative Not The Numbers
Nobody Can Outsmart The Draft
Analytics Has Killed Future Kobes
NBA Seasons Should Last 16 Games
Epidemic? What Epidemic?
Is It History Or A Hot Streak?
The Ball Actually Does Lie
The Game Is 48 Minutes Long
The Thunder Really Did Blow It
Why Can't You Outrun A Cheetah?
The LeBrometer
There Is No Greatest Team Of All Time
Because Pat Summitt Existed
He's Not Throwing Away His Shot
Who Is John Q. Public?
They Call Him The Godslayer
It's A Ropeswing, Not A Leap
The Ultimate Deodorizer
Subtle (And Not So Subtle) Dominance
Make Olympic Medals Great Again
Stat School Summer Vacation Special
Baseline: The U.S. Open Begins
A Season With The Algorithm
ELO Is A Liar
Tom Brady Is A Fraud
The Leopard Vs The Elephant
How To Be Both
Panic City: Wild Card Special
Soccer Stat School
Ahead Of Their Time - The Shift
A Face For The Stats
Ahead Of Their Time - Russians In The NHL
A Team For October
Ahead Of Their Time - Long Ball Soccer
The Chicken Or The Egg
Emergency Pod: Cubs Win After 108 Years
Ahead Of Their Time - The Two-Handed Backhand
This Podcast Is Not About The Election
A Downhill Slide For Humans
Ahead Of Their Time - Randall Cunningham
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Optimize It
We Need a New Eye Test
More Rising to Be Risen
Who's Your Rat King?
Bowls, Brock, and Bells That Go Jingle
The Other Side of the Coin
Come On, Man
The Pressure Factor
The Best Part About A Streak
Superbowlie: Hot Takedown's Super Bowl Special
Hall of Famers
Deadlines, Dynasties, and Data
An All-Basketball Bonanza
In A World Without Stats
Hot Takedown: Live from MIT Sloan
It's A Glitch!
In Pursuit of Rings
The Year of the Carolinas
Hot Takedown's NBA MVP Smackdown
Take That For Data
Rolling The Dice
Positions, Playoffs, and Paul Pierce
Skeptically Impressed
Prove It On The Field
Us Sabermetric Types
Championship Edition
Hot Take Ville
Don't Use The Existing Model
The Other Side Of The Ledger
The Most Statistically Accomplished Player
Free Agency Fireworks
Stat School: Tennis
Stat School: Baseball
The Rookie Dilemma
Trading Places
One Direction Or Another
Hot And Cold
A Tricky Deal
The Cavs-Celtics Swap
Staying Power
September Streaks
Historical Bias
The Hottest Takes
"Conference Tournaments Are Meaningless"
"Get That Extension While You Can"
[AUDIO FIXED] Michigan State Beat The Best
"Giannis Is Clearly The MVP"
"Tiger Will Catch Jack"
"The Rockets Can Beat The Warriors"
"The Giants Drafted A Backup QB"
"The Red Sox Should Be Fine"
"The Raptors Need To Be Better"
"Bottom Line: Pay Women The Same"
"#WarriorsIn4"
"Serena Should Win Every Slam"
The Warriors' Incredible Win And Horrible Loss
"Survival Of The Takiest"
"Is The USWNT As Good As We Thought?"
"The Knicks Need To Grow Up"
"We Want Infinite All-Star Rosters"
"Good Luck Betting On The 2019-20 NBA"
"Zeke Should Hold Out"
"Mets In Perpetual Chaos"
The Whole Show's A Rabbit Hole
"Nothing Says 'Fantasy' Like Risk Management"
"The Youths Have Taken Over Baseball"
Andrew Luck: Brave or Millennial?
NFL Predictions: Truth Hurts For The Minnesota Vikings
"Antonio Brown Orchestrated His Exit"
"The Saints Will Survive. The Steelers Are Done."
"Lopsided Is MLB's New Normal"
We're Unleashing Our New NBA Metric
"Blame It On The Juice"
Jalen Rose Is Mad At Us
Our 2020 (Super Bowl) Draft
"Steph's Broken Hand Is A Blessing"
Let's Blame Analytics: Load Management Edition
"Kaepernick won't play in the NFL again"
"Baseball Needed A Villain"
MLB Is A Soap Opera, NFL Is Game Of Thrones
"The Russia Ban Isn't Enough"
Cheating In Sports: What Really Matters?
STAT SCHOOL: From Box Scores to RAPTOR
A Decade In Sports
"Michigan State Beat The Best"
"The NBA Missed The Point"
"The Steelers Are Better Off Without AB"
Bonus Episode: The Fullback Comeback
College Football Makes A Conference Call
Episode Zero
Hot Takedown - Americans At The U.S. Open; Serena's Endorsements; Fantasy Football Meets Analytics
Hot Takedown - Boring Boxing, NBA Round 2, Why The World Needs A New Baseball Stat
Hot Takedown - Deflategate, We Announce The NBA Draft Fix Winner!
Hot Takedown - Episode Zero
Hot Takedown - Nadal's Decline, Every NBA Team Ranked, Do Stars Matter?
Hot Takedown - NBA Playoffs By The Numbers; Tanking; Tim Tebow, Take Magnet
Hot Takedown - NFL Draft, Mayweather's Past and Boxing's Future, Athletes Going Broke
Hot Takedown - NFL Preview (Now With More Brady!); A Madden Challenge; U.S Open Update
Ready Or Not, Here Comes Baseball
What's In A Team Name?
"No One Believed In Us, And Rightfully So"
"The Ravens Always Choke"
Sign Stealing: Worse Than Steroids!
"Will Jimmy Garoppolo Be The Hero?"
"The Niners Choked"
Kobe Bryant: On and Off The Court
"They Fixed The NBA All-Star Game"
"The Great 8 Is Better Than The Great One"
"Anybody Can Make The Final Four"
Live from Sloan: How Has RAPTOR Done So Far?
2020: A Sports-Less Odyssey
Olympic Flame-Out
Reality TV Is Our Only Hope For Hoops
Going The Social Distance
Time To Get Weird, Sports Leagues
Bringing Down The Krause
Jordan Love Is A Battlefield
U.S. Soccer's Big Day In Court
Live Sports? In This Economy?
Shall We Last Dance?
Show Me The Money(ball)
What Can Sports Do?
Was Drew Brees's Fourth Apology The Charm?
NBA Players Hit Pause
Flattening The Curveball
New(ton) England
MLB's "Plan" Didn't Pan Out
Will College Football Fail Its First Exam?
The Slow Fall Of Football
A Tale Of Two Bubbles
"Processing" The Sixers' Loss
Emergency Podcast: Sports On Strike
The NBA Strike Was Personal
Are We Ready For Some Football?
From Wentz They Came
Week Two Of The NFL Hurt
MLB’s Sweet Sixteen
Bill O'Brien Set His Own Hot Seat On Fire
More Moneyball, More Problems?
Belichick Is Fresh Out Of Magic
All Podcasts Are Political
What's Wrong With The NFL's Best Teams?
The NBA’s Not-Normal November
College Basketball Tries To Stay Positive (And COVID-Negative)
Hard To Play Football Without A Quarterback
The Jets' Tank Is Empty
Along Came A (Cleveland) Spider
New Year, New RAPTOR
Let's Stuff 2020 Down A Rabbit Hole
Ohio State Made The Committee Look Good, And Bad
Alabama Was The Unstoppable Force AND The Immovable Object
One Super Bowl Win Isn't Enough Anymore?
The Analytics On Being Aggressive
Baby GOAT vs. Grizzled GOAT
How The Bucs Sunk The Chiefs
Grading The NHL's Start On And Off The Ice
Osaka's Rise Doesn't Mean Serena Is Done
Why's Everyone Writing Off The Jazz?
A Year Of Pandemic Sports
Let’s Pick Our Brackets
The NCAA Is Bad At Capitalism
All Hype Is Good Hype
An End To The Madness
Can We Keep Our Early Baseball Takes Cool?
A Super League Super Fight
This NFL Draft Class Still Has Some QB Questions
Draft Grades Are Meaningless But Also A+ Fun
It's Hard To Leave MLB Gracefully
Playoffs And Play-Ins
Can You Have Too Many No-Hitters?
Everyone Lost In The French Open Fracas
A Fair Trade For Julio Jones
The Enemy Of My Enemy Roots For The Islanders
SCOTUS 9, NCAA 0
MLB Tries To Get A Grip
The Suns vs. The Bucks vs. Injuries
All NBA Finals Takes Are Possible
So The Olympics Are Still Happening?
Big Trouble For The Big 12
Simone Biles Beams Back
A Messi Situation
Our Expectations Aren’t Being Met By The Mets
Turns Out 500 Is A Lot Of Home Runs
Nebraska’s Frost Is Melting
How We See The NFL Season
Actually, Week 1 Does Matter
Math Nerds (And The Ravens) Win
Brady vs. Belichick: Round Whatever
The Dodgers Need A Reseed
Championships, Random-ships
Why Our Model (Still) Hates The Lakers
It's Anybody's World Series
Analytics, But From The Gut
Football Is Weird, Part Infinity