Report: Oilers fire stats blogger Tyler Dellow?

[CorgisPer60]

Sticking your head into the sand?

I would have thought that with the long neck of the ostrich, it would be easier for them to stick their heads up their *****. That seems to be what Lowe does naturally, anyways.

 

[Jive Pawnbroker]

He's not a moron, but he certainly is pompous.

This

 

[Lurked4Yearz]

Bold move

 

[Captain Mountain]

What they've been doing for 8 years hasn't been working so lets end a new approach after 5 months.

New analytics aren't the be-all-end-all, but if you think they aren't worth knowing and having someone working on... I just don't know what to say.

 

[DopeyFish]

Bold move

Ok, now what

 

[Kale Hulls]

He never could put up good numbers in Edmonton.

 

[Tekneek]

Wasn't he hired to power Eakins' stat/metrics driven philosophies? No surprise he might be on the outs once Eakins crashed and burned. Looking further, Nelson coaches about sound fundamentals as habits and a solid work ethic. None of which is necessarily driven by deep statistical analysis. There is room for Dellow and that analysis in the sport, but the Oilers are not in a position to really benefit from it.

 

[WinterEmpire]

Wasn't he hired to power Eakins' stat/metrics driven philosophies? No surprise he might be on the outs once Eakins crashed and burned. Looking further, Nelson coaches about sound fundamentals as habits and a solid work ethic. None of which is necessarily driven by deep statistical analysis. There is room for Dellow and that analysis in the sport, but the Oilers are not in a position to really benefit from it.

Care to explain why these things have to be mutually exclusive?

hint: they aren't

 

[Tekneek]

Care to explain why these things have to be mutually exclusive?

hint: they aren't

If you're visually assessing the performance and perception of work ethic, I doubt you are particularly concerned with statistics. If you're not pouring over statistical data, why pay somebody to work on it? I am saying that the Oilers are not good enough for it to matter. They will get more out of making those guys bust their ass for 60 minutes than the minutiae of stats at this point.

 

[Mike Jones]

I don't know why the Oilers are so down on the fancy math - Jim Corsi is a former Oiler.

 

[Hivemind]

For what it's worth, Dellow was not the only person working analytics for the Oilers. They apparently already had multiple people working in their front office on analytics, but Dellow was brought in by Eakins to work with the coaching staff. Not a surprise he left with Eakins.

 

[Menzinger]

Hopefully he re-opens his blog.

Dumb move by the team though.

 

[sabrebuild]

If you're visually assessing the performance and perception of work ethic, I doubt you are particularly concerned with statistics. If you're not pouring over statistical data, why pay somebody to work on it? I am saying that the Oilers are not good enough for it to matter. They will get more out of making those guys bust their ass for 60 minutes than the minutiae of stats at this point.

Making your young guys work hard and be fundamentally sound is excellent. Arbitrarily not using a method of quantifying how well they are doing under your coaching is idiotic, regardless of if your team is in 1st or 30th.

 

[Nei1ey*]

Damn, Big Changes underways in Oil land. First Eakins, now...HIM?!, now who's next???

 

[Makar Goes Fast]

Damn, Big Changes underways in Oil land. First Eakins, now...HIM?!, now who's next???

your forgetting the jenga block that started it all... their goalie coach

 

[Arrch]

Where does is say that he was fired?

 

[Voight]

I say moron because he acts like stats are the be all end all of the NHL and hockey.

I can agree with this. I followed him for a bit on Twitter but he was overly biased against anything non-Oilers and had some real arrogant opinions.

Good writer from what I've heard, but too much of an a-hole. (He was a lawyer, so it makes sense )

 

[McDNicks17]

He was hired for Eakins.

Eakins is gone, so they don't need him anymore.

It has nothing to do with the Oilers' direction.

 

[HankNDank]

Wasn't he hired to power Eakins' stat/metrics driven philosophies? No surprise he might be on the outs once Eakins crashed and burned. Looking further, Nelson coaches about sound fundamentals as habits and a solid work ethic. None of which is necessarily driven by deep statistical analysis. There is room for Dellow and that analysis in the sport, but the Oilers are not in a position to really benefit from it.

If you're visually assessing the performance and perception of work ethic, I doubt you are particularly concerned with statistics. If you're not pouring over statistical data, why pay somebody to work on it? I am saying that the Oilers are not good enough for it to matter. They will get more out of making those guys bust their ass for 60 minutes than the minutiae of stats at this point.

So the coaches don't track goals or save percentage either, as long as they are trying hard?

 

[TopShelfYzerman]

Oilers keep firing, failing, firing, failing, but the one factor that remains unscathed is management. Its like an insane lunatic trying the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, and failing to see whats needed to make real change. Oh well, the circus continues...

 

[Voight]

Its like an insane lunatic trying the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, and failing to see whats needed to make real change. Oh well, the circus continues...

Doesn't help they have the Old Boys Club thing going. Lowe needs to simply be fired. Nothing will change until he's gone. But for some reason Katz won't change that, so I don't think even Nicholson can.

 

[Shorthander]

I don't understand why he'd be working for the coach. A "stats guru" is best suited as an assistant to the GM to provide extra information when making personnel decisions.

 

[deckercky]

Analytics wasn't the issue. Clearly it was the goaltending coach.

 

[deckercky]

I don't understand why he'd be working for the coach. A "stats guru" is best suited as an assistant to the GM to provide extra information when making personnel decisions.

Could be useful for working with the coach on effective deployment strategies, etc..

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Perhaps he didn't enjoy Edmonton/the job?

he's originally from Edmonton...