Ben Zauzmer is the Mets’ director of baseball analytics. He won a World Series ring with the Dodgers last year. But when strangers recognize him, they do not cite his day job.
“Oh,” they say. “You’re the Oscars guy.”
Zauzmer’s first love is baseball. His second is movies. And when he was a Harvard undergraduate, he realized his applied-math courses could help him with both. In 2012, his freshman year of college, he developed a model to project which films would succeed at the Academy Awards.
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