Fungo Fundamentals

Where data and fandom meet. This is our storyboard. 

We don’t regurgitate news – you have Twitter for that. We don’t spew unsupported hot takes – you have other blogs and podcasts for that. We don’t just deliver boring data and models without context – you have your Stats professor for that.

Fungo is a place for us to combine the head of the GM with the heart of the fan. The burn of the hot take with the oomph of the data. We seek to inform, understand, and have fun. Because who ever said those things had to be mutually exclusive?

Fungo was created by me! Jack Clayton. Just another obsessive sports nerd with a passion. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018, I knew I wanted to work in sports. When that didn’t happen, two years later I got a master’s degree in business analytics in pursuit of lateraling those skills back into the sports world. When that also didn’t happen, I finally made peace with being just a fan for the rest of my career. 

But since when did being “just a fan” mean we couldn’t be part of the game? We’re not just fans here at Fungo. We’re super fans. I’m talkin’ industrial propellers, baby. Blasting the wind beneath our favorite players’ wings. And just like the athletes, we didn’t get this good overnight. So somebody grab a fungo, we’ve got reps to take.