Frank Frigo

When you see Andy Reid on the headset during a game, he's speaking to Mike Frazier up in the booth, and Mike Frazier was consulting our models.

Yes, absolutely.

When the Eagles adopted it, we worked very closely with their analytics staff.

They had some of their own internal models, but they were basically calibrating everything off of ours because it was a lot more sophisticated.

The real similarity of football to backgammon is that you score in these unusual increments, where in games like baseball, you're basically trying to produce runs and trying to keep your opponent from producing runs.

And that correlates very, very well with win probability.

Football's very different because you have a decaying clock and you score in different increments.

So the utility of points changes dramatically based on the state of the game.

And that's something that has been very, very well modeled in backgammon.

Yeah, it's good.

Good luck.

I think of backgammon as a masochistic mindfulness.

When I'm playing, I'm not thinking about anything else.

Hours could go by.

I forget to eat.

I forget every other thing going on in my life.

I'm going through all of these, you know, ups and downs and twists and turns.

You're getting these little dopamine rushes.

You know, you roll a good number, something goes well, it goes poorly.

You feel alive.