This webinar qualifies for 1.2 SOA/EA CPD and CAS CE credits.

Twenty-five years ago, just five years after receiving his Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries, John Dewan left a highly successful career as an insurance actuary to pursue a life-long dream, the development of the most timely and comprehensive computer database in sports. This became STATS, Inc., a sports statistics company that was eventually sold to Rupert Murdoch and FOX News for 45 million dollars. John is the author of four volumes of The Fielding Bible and the owner of Baseball Info Solutions, which provides analytical services to 22 of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams. 

In this entertaining and informative webinar, John Dewan will cover:

• How improving data collection changed the sport of baseball
• His own personal journey from successful insurance actuary to sports analytics entrepreneur
• Specific examples of the applications of data mining and actuarial science to baseball
• Areas of overlap between actuarial science and sports analytics
• How you can get involved in the growing industries of sabermetrics and sports analytics.

This is the first webinar in a 2-part series. Stay informed for our future webinar which will go more in-depth into the field of predictive analytics applied to baseball.