BillsVet Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 19 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: I would say he probably had little to no say for the draft Analytic guys in football are mostly running probabilities ... Like what does the data say about going for it on 4th and one from your own 45 in the second quarter He would literally be about 15th or 20th down the line on the draft.. they might take his data but I doubt they would even ask him if they think the guy is good enough to draft.. he's not a scout I doubt McD would give analytics types the time of day even if they were in the room during meetings to develop their draft board.
Mr. WEO Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 19 hours ago, Limeaid said: Info on him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-weiss/ (Had him on list on my LinkedIn account) A Tiny Tim fan. Some here might like this article he is following: models to evaluate NFL defensive coverage and ability to limit receiver space for the NFL's 2021 https://www.kaggle.com/djblechn/field-ownership-above-expected Forward to Levi with Cliff notes
The Wiz Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 23 hours ago, DJB said: I wonder if Reiss played a role with our drafting the RAS monsters. Also here is his Twitter if you want to follow him. Maybe he leaves us clues for the future. Another panthers/Buffalo connection in the books. 1 1
Boxcar Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 I hate always bringing up baseball, but the analytic revolution already happened there. The MLB version of PFF is FanGraphs. When I played fantasy baseball, I relied heavily on a guy named Chris Mitchell and his system called KATOH when it came to the MLB draft and we were drafting prospects with zero pro experience. I did very well. KATOH had no biases. In fact, people often got mad because it left off players other people said we're going to be stars. Take, for example, Brendan Rodgers. He was a top 20 prospect that KATOH placed outside the top 100. People were furious. So far, he looks like he's going to end up as a bench player, at best. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-consensus-top-prospect-katoh-hates/ KATOH was also super high on guys who no one knew about who could end up as hall of famers (Jose Ramirez, Paul Goldschmidt, among others). Then Chris Mitchell got hired by a team and he took KATOH with him. Anyway, my point is that if you can recognize significant data points in the college game that tend to lead to successful players, and build a model around that, AND mix it with traditional scouting...that has tended to be the method of finding gems in baseball and I don't see why that would not be the case in football. 18 minutes ago, The Wiz said: Another panthers/Buffalo connection in the books. This is not connected. The two guys already worked for their respective teams. 1
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