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Ken Pomeroy joins the podcast to talk about his ratings and some of the unique challenges of basketball analytics at the college level.

Nate Duncan, salary cap savant and host of the Dunc'd On Podcast joins me to talk about mastering the intricacies of the NBA CBA, the league's current financial climate and some early thoughts on the Golden State Warriors, Indiana Pacers and Derrick Rose.

Three Nylon Calculus writers join the podcast to discuss their models and methodologies for NBA win projections. We dig into strengths and weaknesses of the models and some of the most surprising results.

Nate Silver, Editor-in-Chief of FiveThirtyEight, joins the podcast to talk about FiveThirtyEight's new CARMELO Player Projection System and the site's team preview and win projections for the upcoming NBA season.

A relaunched and reinvigorated r-squared Podcast kicks off for the new NBA season. This episode features a conversation with Nylon Calculus managing editor Seth Partnow about some of his work this summer on positionality, bully ball and the Houston Rockets.

Former Director of Analytics for the Philadelphia 76ers, Aaron Barzilai, joins the podcast to talk about the state of basketball analytics, his career path and some of the differences between analytic work done in the public sphere and what's done behind closed doors at the team level.