Oakland Raiders should hire Paul DePodesta

by Instant Replay Umpire on Dec 7, 2005 1:00 PM PST Comment 4 comments

to run their Research & Development Department.

What do you guys think?

I honestly think there are statistics out there that can give you a full right advantage on drafting players, picking play calls, and signing free agents for football.

Maybe then, the Raiders can finally learn that they have a higher probability of winning (I have no evidence) if they run a no huddle offense the whole game against Denver like the Colts.

Anybody got statistics for football that is as strong as OBP for baseball? Thanx in Advance

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Raiders should go after Paul DePodesta

Maybe, but he has to promise no Randy Ratio

2 votes

Only on the condition that he finds some statistic that has low beer prices correlated with winning

10 votes

Yes

10 votes

No

3 votes

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No

Paul DePoDesta is a Baseball Guy. If they hired a stats guy for research, it would be a FOOTBALL guy who knows stats, not a BASEBALL guy who knows stats. Also, the Raiders and Al Davis have to listen to him, and if its anything like Baseball, they wont.

There are only two races in Baseball, Right Handers and Left Handers.

by Zonis on Dec 7, 2005 1:09 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

well...

A) Al Davis would do ANYTHING to win...

B) DePodesta did play football in college, and worked for the CFL before getting into MLB, so he probably knows his stuff well enough to cook up something... Besides, you don't really have to "know" baseball to understand the stats... The A's initially exploited the low market value of OBP to turn their organization around, as long as you understood that OBP was the probability of not making an out you could understand the main baseball stat DePo covets, lol

"Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste." - Tug McGraw(Plans for 75K salary)

by balldood on Dec 7, 2005 1:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

De Po couldn't hurt

And while they are at it, the Raiders need a Billy Beane type evaluator of young talent. Their drafting for the most part, has been atrocious the past few years.

by Reggie on Dec 7, 2005 9:01 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I don't know about stats as strong as OBP...

but footballoutsiders.com does a pretty good statistical analysis of pro football. Football is by its nature a difficult sport to quantify but I would recommend that you check out that site and some of their stats. I'd also recommend that the Raiders not check out that site and instead keep wasting picks on guys like Janikowski. Go Broncos!

by mmurray on Dec 7, 2005 10:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs