Cowboys hire Sarah Mallepalle as Strategic Football Analyst

[J12B]

Wonder if this will help us in being awarded a comp pick in next year's draft.

I believe the hiring of women and minorities helps in the formula.

 

[DandyDon52]

analytics are only as good as the people implementing them.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds058]

I would have hired her too once I looked at her pic.

Good hire !

LOL

 

[CWR]

Interesting stuff. I would advise her to do a cluster analysis of her vocabulary. She will find overuse of the word "um". She should try to eliminated that from her speaking.

I suppose it is only a matter of time before analytics evolves to the point of predictive reasoning. It is scary to think we may someday see computers predicting our every reaction with near certainty. But then analytics are also predictable so teams will see patterns in their and their opponents behaviors and compensate for that.

I have always wondered if someone would attempt to gather as lots of data about college players and NFL players and use it to predict with more accuracy who in the draft will succeed in NFL. I would not expect this to be perfect, but I suspect it could evolve to be better than Jerry and Stephen.

I watched a doc a few years back about "pro" gamblers who would hire an entire team of analytics people. They had different guys for everything and were careful as to make sure none of the analysts knew or even met one another. It's still gambling and you can't account for everything, but these guys win a lot more than they lose.

 

[Rayman70]

football isnt this complicated. How many analysts do we need?

 

[XXLMike]

She’s seems highly intelligent- we have a shortage of these people.
Love the hire

 

[jazzcat22]

If Sarah could get over her case of the ums, she could be interesting to listen to.

It looks like your 1999 prediction about the feminization of the NFL turned out to be correct.

I like her though. You just need someone to understand what they're doing, and she's pleasant enough.

Hey…umm … she speaks Jerry language … they understand each other ….

 

[KingCorcoran]

football isnt this complicated. How many analysts do we need?

Apparently at least one more than before.

 

[gimmesix]

She's an expert in machine learning and AI. Like I was saying before, Jerry has the means to do this, and they should be doing it. She should be working hand-in-hand with coaches, and the scouting department, to analyze and highlight data that can give you an edge, or develop strategy. This is good.

She sounds bright.

If she can replace Jerry with AI, I'm all for it.

 

[gimmesix]

The Patriots used to combine this sort of analysis with behavioral experts, body language experts and lip readers. That was half of Tom Brady's game. He was in tight with the analytics department.

Were they the ones who told him that the data shows if you deflate the footballs some you can throw them better?

 

[Vinnie2u]

If she can replace Jerry with AI, I'm all for it.

Yup I think Allen Iverson would make a great GM. Practice we talking practice...

 

[CouchCoach]

I'll set the over/under at 1 minute for the amount of time the GM and his Director of Player Personnel invest in trying to understand this type of analysis.

I'll take the under for $100.

 

[Alexander]

I see that John Park is now forging his next step towards franchise immortality.

 

[TNCowboy]

 

[Bullflop]

Change is always an improvement if the new help proves successful. Let's hope she's good enough to be listened to by our leadership. That would likely be step one to help this team. Let's hope Mike McCarthy and the others on the offensive staff work well with her, also. She was deemed good enough to be hired by the FO and the offensive staff, for whatever that's worth.

 

[zekecowboy]

Mallepalle joins the Cowboys with the title of Strategic Football Analyst, which would seemingly make her the second-in-command under Park in the Cowboys’ football analytics department.

Mallepalle comes over from the Ravens, where she has been a Player Personnel Analyst for the past four seasons. She was one of a handful of analytics staffers hired in Baltimore after the 2018 season, as the organization sought a revamping of sorts that made them one of the most analytically-inclined franchises in football. Since then, the Ravens have gone 43-23 with three postseason trips, in addition to fueling a furious debate over the role of analytics in football decision-making.

While Mallepalle was not the one in charge of the Ravens’ analytics department during that time, she was a key cog in the machine that created one of the NFL’s most efficient teams over the last four years. She assisted with analytics research in a variety of areas, including game planning and draft preparation. General Manager Eric DeCosta singled her out for undertaking a project in determining the best receiver prospect fits for the team ahead of the 2021 NFL Draft.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...-department-sarah-mallepalle-baltimore-ravens

 

[ghst187]

I wish AI were our GM.

And our play calling the last ten years…

 

[unionjack8]

Serious question.
Did they not use analytics prior to these hires?

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

Were they the ones who told him that the data shows if you deflate the footballs some you can throw them better?

They told them not to worry about the NYGiants that they'd win by at least 3 TD's and become the 1st 19-0 team in history.

 

[BoyzBlaster]

I'll set the over/under at 1 minute for the amount of time the GM and his Director of Player Personnel invest in trying to understand this type of analysis.

I'd give $500 to charity to be present at the first meeting where she tries to dumb this down for her audience just to see their blank expressions.