Are we getting a 14 man analytics team?

[Hawkeye0202]

I want to apply. I’ll fetch the Whataburgers.

Best hamburger in the world........lol

Too bad I live 200 miles from the nearest one......

 

[fansince68]

Do you want that heart attack for here or to go?

150,000,000......not Daks contract. The calorie content in that meal.

 

[GMO415]

Spies Like Us?

No. That's from SNL.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Just for some reference concerning the 14 man team in case some missed it...



Around the 0:46 mark

 

[Rockport]

150,000,000......not Daks contract. The calorie content in that meal.

Sure if you East then ask the time. Everything in moderation.

 

[Bullflop]

One question I kept waiting for them to ask but don't think I heard was if Jones approved the full fourteen man analytics team.

The question as to whether a 14-man analytics team will be approved or not might rest largely on Stephen Jones' inclination to do so! Sounds like it might well be something of an expensive venture! It begs the question as to whether or not he would see fit to sign up for that idea!

 

[SSoup]

The question as to whether a 14-man analytics team will be approved or not might rest largely on Stephen Jones' inclination to do so! Sounds like it might well be something of an expensive venture! It begs the question as to whether or not he would see fit to sign up for that idea!

The Joneses have some interest in analytics. Jerry's the same guy who wisely tasked someone with analyzing draft pick trades to create the trade value chart years ago. So: Fundamentally, he's vaguely interested in things like this that can give him an edge.

But now that the idea of an analytics team is tied to McCarthy so publicly, it means there's not much upside for Jerry to get credit for it. So will Jerry care about it enough to do it up right?

And perhaps a better question: does he fundamentally understand the concept enough to understand the type of statisticians and Game Theory strategists he needs to be employing? Academics and nerds? Or would Jerry see a batch of job openings he doesn't really understand as a good chance to hand the jobs to rando's who happen to be the son of a coach or a colleague that Jerry wants to owe him a favor? Because if he hands those positions to guys who aren't nerds for this stuff, guys who just want a foot in the door in the football industry (to pay back a favor or to get someone else to owe him a favor), they're gonna be useless as far as helpful analytics.

And now that McCarthy landed the job, does he even care about analytics anymore? Or was it just a cynical ploy? A buzzword he knew would lure sportswriter nerds to write puff pieces about how he reinvented himself, helping catapult him to landing a job like this? We'll see, I guess.

I don't think it costs much to put together this analytics team, though.

The pool of academic nerds who fit the bill are the exact kind of people, as a demographic, who probably don't even need the money and can afford to take the job without demanding much money for it just because it seems like a fun job to them. It's why you read articles about baseball front offices being full of generic rich white dudes, because they're the demographic that can get a fancy degree and then get their foot in the door working for the team for next to nothing because their family is rich already.

It realistically only costs a ton of money if the team decides they're gonna require hires to sign strict contracts stipulating that all the theories and models and strategies they generate for us will belong solely to us as intellectual property, and they're prohibited from ever sharing that content with future employers (other teams) or in the media (they can't go write a book about it and try to make themselves the next famous face of analytics). To get brilliant people to agree to those terms, they'd have to pony up money to sweeten the pot.

Maybe they decide it's worth it if they're worried about a repeat of the draft pick trade value chart, where the team developed something and within a few years literally everyone else had it too.