The Cowboys and the Indian (ESPN/538 Film)

[JD_KaPow]

I haven't watched this yet, but I haven't seen mention of it here and thought I'd pass the link along:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/cowboys-and-indian-fivethirtyeight-films-signals/

Decades Before Moneyball, The Dallas Cowboys Used Advanced Stats To Win Super Bowls

A. Salam Qureishi grew up in India and knew nothing about football — or America. And yet in the early 1960s, Qureishi, a computer programmer and statistician, helped the Dallas Cowboys overhaul their scouting system, replacing hunches with hard numbers.

The result: five Super Bowl appearances and two titles. FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Films present “The Cowboys and the Indian,” directed by Mark Polish. It’s the second film in our short series “Signals.” (Watch our first “Signals” film, “The Man vs. the Machine,” here.)

 

[Alexander]

That seems pretty interesting. Never heard of this individual, but back in those days the Cowboys were regarded as cold, calculating computers who did not play with emotion. The whole computer and statistical part of it was played up a lot, especially after Pete Gent wrote NDF.