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Guild Names Rohan Chandran as New Chief Product & Technology Officer

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
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Guild , the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, today announced that Rohan Chandran has joined the company as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer.

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  • Guild , the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, today announced that Rohan Chandran has joined the company as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer.
  • Chandran’s appointment follows a year of record impact from Guild, bolstered by the introduction of a new product, Career Accelerator , along with other capabilities, to help support the end-to-end career advancement journey for Guild members and learners.
  • Chandran joins Guild most recently from Data Axle where he served as the company’s Chief Product Officer, leading its product, technology, and data functions.
  • “Guild’s product and technology are critical to scaling our mission of unlocking opportunity and creating career mobility.

Bazball by the numbers: what the stats say about English cricket’s ambitious but risky change of pace

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
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The leisurely sport of Test cricket, in which matches last for several days, has been around for almost 150 years.

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  • The leisurely sport of Test cricket, in which matches last for several days, has been around for almost 150 years.
  • Bazball is only about a year old, and some debate its merits and even its very existence.

What is Bazball?

    • After a lacklustre 4-0 loss to Australia in the Ashes series two summers ago, England sacked head coach Chris Silverwood.
    • His replacement was the relatively untested McCullum, a former captain of the New Zealand team known for his fast scoring as a batsman.
    • He is the first international head coach to have played the majority of his career in the era of the frenetic, high-scoring Twenty20 cricket format.

Run rates

    • At the conclusion of the first Test of this Ashes series, 2,507 matches of Test cricket had been played and nearly 2,500,000 runs scored.
    • Across all those matches, the average number of runs scored per six-ball over (known as the “run rate”) has been remarkably stable.
    • Over the past 20 years, the run rate has averaged 3.29 runs per over, the highest in Test cricket’s history.

Comparing Bazball to the past

    • As a result, there is less variety in run rates for innings with larger totals.
    • The model took into account the innings total, the year of play, and the location where the match was played.
    • As the charts above show, the model does well at capturing how the mean and variance of run rates changes with year and innings total.

Putting Bazball in context

    • As you can see by the highlighted bars, there are eight Bazball innings in the top 30.
    • This is quite remarkable, given there are only 20 Bazball innings altogether in our data set of 2,659 innings.
    • This demonstrates strong evidence that Bazball is a very real phenomenon.