A few weeks ago, I wrote about how doing the things that do not always generate glory are crucial to success, citing the example of the Miami Heat basketball player, Shane Battier. Well, the Heat won the NBA championship last week, largely due to Battier’s performance in Game 7. What was particularly satisfying is that Battier credited his performance to analytics: Shane Battier cites regression to the mean.

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Author: Lloyd Melnick
I am Director of StarsPlay at The Stars Group (PokerStars), where I lead the team responsible for free-to-play gaming. We currently have more than 20 free-to-play applications with over 500,000 daily unique players. Our game, Jackpot Poker, won the 2017 EGR award for best mobile poker product. Previously, I was Sr Dir at Zynga's social casino (including Hit It Rich! slots, Zynga Poker and our mobile games), where I led VIP CRM efforts and arranged licensing deals. I have been a central part of the senior management team (CCO, GM and CGO) at three exits (Merscom/Playdom, Playdom/Disney and Spooky Cool/Zynga) worth over $700 million the past 4 years.
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love it. regressing to mean is so applicable to everything we do.
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