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Cleveland Browns hire Paul DePodesta

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Jan 6, 2016.

  1. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Jesus, YF, try to keep up.
     
  2. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    That's a good point. There's a good chance he's involved a lot less in scouting and a lot more in capology and such.
     
  3. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Maybe he's just there to help Haslam with his fantasy team.
     
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  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    LOL.

    I know they film a lot. I just didn't know they have that many cameras set up and isolated on individual players/positions.
     
  5. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    The question is how do you determine who is Tier 1 versus Tier Two. You need some level of analytics to make that distinction. Or are you saying that the distribution of salaries among a position alone can reveal inefficiencies? I think that is possible. It seems to me that good and very good QBs get overpaid relative to the great QBs.
     
  6. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    They don't have that many cameras capturing every play/practice rep. The All-22 was supposed to be the Holy Grail of analysis. Team officials weren't keen on giving fans access to that footage.
     
  7. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    It's the Browns, so anything is possible.

    "Analytics" is a catch word that people throw around recently, but actually it's just using mathematical formulas to look at things differently or to support or disprove what they already think. Where people get in trouble is not knowing when the data is valid and when it's not.

    Jimmy Johnson's draft pick value board in the 1990s was a perfect example of analytics. Teams have been charting play calling tendencies of other teams for decades. Teams have been breaking down film and assigning value grades to individual players for individual games for years.

    Now, could the Browns be bat-shit crazy enough to do shit like place hard cap values on positions like "we only play a starting left tackle 4% of our overall cap, and we let the player go if they are not willing to take that salary?" Or would they have this guy telling the coach from the press box to go for it or punt? Possibly. It's the Browns.
     
  8. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    The easiest way for an NFL team to be successful is to recognize who will be a quality NFL player before the draft and then draft and properly develop them.

    If you can't do that, I don't what you do with analytics, your team isn't going to be worth a shit.
     
  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    They need to invent the NFL equivalent of your QuAlity Start stat. That was ground breaking.
     
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  10. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

  11. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

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