The Rams are successful in their use of analytics

[LARAMSinFeb.]

Analytics is a Les thing, not a Sean thing.
Demoff said so at a Sloan seminar -- I'll try to find it.
As proof on McVay, fourth-and-1 from their own 30, with five minutes to go in the Super Bowl, with all their time outs, McMay went for it. The analytics move was to kick.

Edit: Proof 2 - It was the draft behind the scenes episode of, I think, behind the grind. Les is trying to decide on a player and McVay tells him, basically, to go with his gut. Yeah, gut = not analytics.

Edit 2:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBa5bik6tHY

Maybe the analytics were adding up equal, and Sean was just offering a solution; does that mean he doesn't use or value analytics? I kind of doubt there'd be a dichotomy on it between McVay and Snead.

 

[Ellard80]

Now its all 3 pointers and no defense
NBA is unwatchable nowadays
Thank god college basketball still exists

Defense is actually much more valued in todays nba than in many parts of its history.

I can tell by a lot of these comments though that not many people here actually watch games.

 

[Ellard80]

'70s and '80s basketball was so great. The only basketball I watch is during the off season when NBA network shows all the great matchups between the Celtics and Lakers and Pistons. Why was it great? The 3-point line was an afterthought.

are you trying to portray a stereo-type... just asking for a friend.

 

[Ellard80]

Now its all 3 pointers and no defense
NBA is unwatchable nowadays
Thank god college basketball still exists

I watch college basketball - but its actually much worse level of play than the nba.

none of the good players stay in college.

 

[NYCRam]

are you trying to portray a stereo-type... just asking for a friend.

I don't get it.....

 

[dieterbrock]

Defense is actually much more valued in todays nba than in many parts of its history.

I can tell by a lot of these comments though that not many people here actually watch games.

Obviously you didnt watch games prior to 2010
Based on your college comment you clearly dont understand basketball.

 

[dieterbrock]

I don't get it.....

Clearly he's trolling