It’s that time of year again. Football season is here and for a lot of people that means trying to take their fantasy football team to glory. One IBM product manager in particular takes her fantasy football pretty seriously. Who says women do not like fantasy football? While most people draft their fantasy teams based on gut feeling and a few magazines predictions, Hetal Thaker uses widely available IBM predictive analytics software that taps into the large pool of qualitative and quantitative information available to fantasy team managers everywhere. The results: she’s won her fantasy league 3 of the past 5 years. CIO.com Senior Editor Thomas Wailgum interviewed Thaker and she spoke about fantasy football strategies, trash talking, and her love of analytics and the woeful Detroit Lions. To read the interview visit CIO.com or click here: Fantasy Football Guru Ignores Her Instincts, Trusts Analytics

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