Rumor: Leafs significantly expanding their analytics department

[TheDoldrums]

That number seems very high at first glance, though I guess the future is ambiguous wording.

It does make sense that they would look to expand with the avalanche of tracking data that they'll have access to soon.

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[Orfieus]

I hope that tracking tech trickles down to the CHL level

 

[JT AM da real deal]

Let's hope they hire a few guys good with numbers who actually played to give context. Numbers by themselves are meaningless. Einstein.

 

[ACC1224]

Great.

 

[egd27]

Dubas sure does seem to love spending money.

 

[Gabriel426]

That's greatish... just more stats for Leafs Nations to debate among ourselves.

Can they just keep things simple.
Can the player skate?
Can the player skate with the puck?
Can the player hit?
Does the player finish his checks?
.....

 

[Jozay]

Dubas said they have 6 full time and 1 part time working in their R&D department. Couldn't hurt to get more people in there.

 

[justafan22]

On the non roster side, they, the Rangers and Montreal have the most money in the league to do this stuff

 

[socko]

or you could just spend that $50 million on Yzerman and skip the analytics dept.

just saying.

 

[rumman]

I'm sure there are advance stats warranting such a investment in graphs and pie charts, personally having more/better scout is a sounder investment, but I have no analytics to support my position.

 

[ACC1224]

Can they yet give credit to analytics for anything significant?

 

[JT AM da real deal]

On the non roster side, they, the Rangers and Montreal have the most money in the league to do this stuff

When you consider non-hockey revenue there is Leafs and then Habs and Rangers are not even remotely close. This is why leafs can spend ten of millions on extra stuff that no other team can do.

 

[Jmo89]

Cool. Can they also spend a few million and get dman that clears the crease for Andy?

 

[thewave]

This is actually hilarious. More is less. Just get a competent person who has a clear vision an effective approach.

This team will be lost in no time, 50 voices, 50 opinions. It's going to be HFBoards inside MLSE lol

 

[Hockey Crazy]

That's it... im signing up for a big data course... best chance I have to gt hired by MLSE

Pretty exciting stuff. I think the first team to get a significant advantage from this tracking data could get a serious edge on the rest of the league.

 

[Walshy7]

Dubas sure does seem to love spending money.

yeah dubas give edg27 his money back he didn't agree to this

 

[Hockey Crazy]

This is actually hilarious. More is less. Just get a competent person who has a clear vision and competent effective approach.

This team will be lost in no time, 50 voices, 50 opinions. It's going to be HFBoards inside MLSE lol

You sound very old school. Data is power.

 

[Whaleafs]

How many 10s of millions does it take to figure out Hainsey can’t play top pair minutes

 

[Walshy7]

or you could just spend that $50 million on Yzerman and skip the analytics dept.

just saying.

Unfortunately Yzerman can and likely will say no, seeing as he seems fairly comfortable and likely wants to stay in Detroit area.

 

[Marshy]

You sound very old school. Data is power.

Sounds like the school burned down.

 

[Nineteen67]

How do they define “analytics department”?
Does it include sports science and training?
Either way, if it uncovers something beneficial, have at it.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I’m all for expanding the analytics department but it’ll really take $50 million? What are they buying? Specialized equipment to track certain things? Had to be.

 

[IPS]

Cool. Can they also spend a few million and get dman that clears the crease for Andy?

Jake Muzzin not good enough for ya?

 

[thewave]

You sound very old school. Data is power.

6 people aren't enough? It's becoming another inefficient bloated organization that has too many people at the wheel. When you have that many voices in a room, they just argue and debate until good ideas are compromised into shells of good ideas.

 

[Martin Skoula]

I'm expecting a majority of that spending to be getting people to manually collect stats from junior and overseas leagues. Make it easier to put together a list of under the radar players with higher ceilings than they appear to have because of poor usage and then send scouts to confirm in person.

Hopefully this helps land home run swings in the back half of the draft and role player FA signings.

 

[thewave]

I’m all for expanding the analytics department but it’ll really take $50 million? What are they buying? Specialized equipment to track certain things? Had to be.

Maybe they can create the first AI team management system and then they can fire the lot of them and rely on said AI and finally lower ticket prices.