Ernie
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- Aug 3, 2004
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Personally, I think organizations should focus more on hiring graduates from STEM fields who have a good knowledge on sports to analyze data for trends. I would argue that hiring graduated graduate students from a statistics, economics, or physics department would be much more effective than hiring people like Cam Charron who are familiar with the game but don't really know how to use statistics, model, or know how to actually draw valid conclusions and assess their validity.
Indeed. Get some super nerds and pair them with hockey guys. In some ways a lot of hockey knowledge could be a negative - there are way to many learned biases. In addition, find some guys who can write code!
When the league starts tracking ice movements, the Charrons and Dellowses aren't going to be able to keep up unless they double down on the nerd.