2024 Commanders Off-Season Thread

[EdmundDorf]

Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

Sorry to say, you are more wrong about that than you realize. Analytics is so integrated with coaching today that football may as well have been invented in the 21st Century. Analytics is based on facts which have disproved many traditional assumptions about game management, player acquisitions and more. Furthermore, it is clear that the new owners intend to move forward with implementing a strong analytics role within the football operations side of the business.

Not so much facts, but numbers certainly, what "facts" are gleaned from the numbers is dependant on how good the person doing the analysis is.

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by EdmundDorf

Not so much facts, but numbers certainly, what "facts" are gleaned from the numbers is dependant on how good the person doing the analysis is.

Of course you're right about that. When Eugene Shen worked with Baltimore and Miami he and others from the analytics staffs worked hand-in-glove with coaches, scouts, and FO executives. They were staff to all of those people and the people they advised made the decisions. For the data analysis to be helpful to the decision makers they needed to buy into the value of the analytics staff work. As in any organization, for anything to work the CEO must believe in it and support it. Our new CEO is a strong believer in data analytics and he uses it extensively as a tool in his other two sports franchises.

BTW, Eugene Shen's education:

AB, Applied Math with Economics Harvard University 1993

MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management 1998