Quote:meh not sold on the analytic thing, this isn't baseball..........it's cute Khan gave his son something to do but I'm hanging my hat more on the work Caldwell and Gus are doing then any analytical analysis the owners son is doing.

 

I don't see it as cute at all. It's another tool in the too box, and a valuable one when you're evaluating players beyond the tape.  Data analytics are invaluable in finding that nugget of data that could be the difference between a bust and a success.  The fact that it's not baseball we're talking about is irrelevant.  Stats are stats regardless of the sport, and there are ways to derive information from that data that could prove to be beneficial to this team.  It's not the final factor, but it is a tool that's nice to have in addition to those every other team is using. 

 

The fact that other teams have indicated they're watching what the Jaguars are doing with analytics tells you that there's a lot of interest in what they're doing.  I'm glad they're keeping their process proprietary.  If it gives the team a little bit of an advantage in evaluating players, great.

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