Paul Carr

And then, yeah, it gets turned into a graphic or a video package or whatever it is.

So, yeah, and it's those nerdy things of, you know, last guy to...

score a goal with his left foot on tuesday on the road that was us too we're happy to get into the nerdy minutiae of it all as well i mean is that is that how did you did you aspire to be in that you know corner of the of the sports world or did you end up in that corner of the sports world more more ended up only because like it didn't exist when i was in college say like i went to college you know moneyball was not yet written let alone you know popular in a movie and all that so

I was like a comms major, a media major, and started out in radio in Topeka.

But I was always good at numbers, always liked math and history and everything like that.

And so I eventually found my way to ESPN in the research job.

And while I was there was kind of when the analytics boom started in the sports world.

So I was in the right place to help translate these advanced numbers into television, essentially, and tell those stories well.

So I didn't intend on it, but I would today.

If I were going to school today, I'd have more intent.

just because the field now exists than it did 25 years ago.

Yep.

I mean, you look at the things Moneyball, that era was advanced stuff was using on base percentage instead of batting average.

And now, you know, you watch any average baseball game and even just like the lower third, the graphic at the bottom, when a guy comes up, probably doesn't have the old batting average homers RBI.

It might have OPS or on base percentage or something in that vein.

That's kind of a microcosm where like that is mainstream.

And, you know, 15, 20, you know, that was kind of the cutting edge.

And now there's just so much more data now beyond all that box score stuff, you know, with, again, StatCast, with NGS, there's similar things in soccer where they're just tracking things.

Some of it's manual, some of it's automated.

You can, you know, just finding it, how fast is the guy running or what kind of angles is he taking on his route?