deal architect

article thumbnail

Precisely Wrong

deal architect

One of the most closely watched metrics at the annual NFL Scouting Combine this time of the year is each athlete’s 40 yard dash timing. At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference last year a panel decomposed that metric. Industry Commentary'

Metrics 230
article thumbnail

Sports: Big Data gets Bigger

deal architect

Baseball coaches and scouts didn’t need no stinkin’ analytical rigor or new metrics. Michael Lewis was describing how controversial his book, Moneyball, was when it first came out in 2003. A decade later, as I attend the MIT Sloan Sports.

Analytics 259