Wall Street Titans in Sports Have Nate Silver Seeing Statistics

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Nate Silver has a forecast for professional sports: The use of analytics will grow as Wall Street titans buy more franchises.

“People who have experience in a market understand that you have to innovate to compete,” Silver, the statistics blogger who correctly called every U.S. state in the last presidential election, said in an interview at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston.