Paraag Marathe Thread

Originally posted by jcs:

"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price....It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."

http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/offensive-line/Content?oid=2158707&storyPage=2

Ugh...

Originally posted by Antix:

Originally posted by jcs:

"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price....It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."

http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/offensive-line/Content?oid=2158707&storyPage=2

Ugh...

The San Francisco Thrifty-Niners!

Incontinence is serious. He should get help.

Originally posted by Zealot:
The San Francisco Thrifty-Niners!

Santa Clara can collectors

I wouldn't be surprised if the yorks owned a child labor factory in china somewhere.

This is the guy that is really running the show.

Originally posted by jcs:
"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price....It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."

http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/offensive-line/Content?oid=2158707&storyPage=2

Does this guy even football? Like, really?

Originally posted by jcs:

"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price....It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."

http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/offensive-line/Content?oid=2158707&storyPage=2

Him and Billy Beane get together and jack each other off over a pile of Excel spreadsheets.

Originally posted by jcs:
http://www.ninersnation.com/2015/11/19/9698608/paraag-marathe-the-man-behind-the-curtain

Could Analytics be the reason why we went with Gabbert and company instead of drafting a new QB?

I suspect that the conflict between Harbaugh and the front office, did not start with Baalke, but with Marathe. Starting first with the FO trying to force Harbaugh to use the analytics. The conflict grew as the stadium was nearing completion with a few will publicized issues (keep in mind that Marathe was the FO lead on the stadium project). The first was the fight over the locker room. Harbaugh wanted the new stadium locker room for games only, the FO wanted the team to use it for practice as well. The second conflict was over the teams entry into the stadium. The FO wanted to copy Dallas and have the team enter the stadium through the VIP area. The problem was that the only way the team could do that is if the home team side was on the sunny side of the field. Harbaugh considered having the opposing team sit in the sun to be a competitive advantage.

From some reports Baalke was Harbaughs last supporter in the FO. Given a choice between Harbaugh and the owner, easy to see why he would have taken York's side and maintain his job by demonstrating the loyalty that Jed seems to value above winning.

Man f**k this guy!

Originally posted by jcs:
"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price....It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."

http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/offensive-line/Content?oid=2158707&storyPage=2

This from a guy who knew f**k all about football. Like I said in the Jed York thread, John York found a guy that they thought could count cards and give them a major leg up at the poker table but the analytics-driven approach they've been employing since the early 00's hasn't proven fruitful beyond the 4 years with Harbaugh where he ran a decidedly old-style football operation.

Originally posted by DelCed2486:
Him and Billy Beane get together and jack each other off over a pile of Excel spreadsheets.

The difference is that Billy Beane has actually been successful despite regularly burdened with a low payroll. Beane has made a lot of mistakes but he's also had success in a very unfavorable situation with spendthrift owners. The 49ers outside of the Harbaugh years have been terrible.

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Originally posted by jcs:
"The name of the game is not finding the best players, as conventional wisdom says," according to Marathe. "The name of the game is finding the best possible players for the lowest price....It's just being smart about managing your money. It's what a financial adviser would do for a client."

http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/offensive-line/Content?oid=2158707&storyPage=2

Don't forget this interview

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/san-francisco-49ers-paraag-marathe-how-launch-career-sports-management

What was the problem that you solved?

In 2001, Bill Walsh, the GM of the 49ers, hired Bain to work on a project with the NFL draft. He wanted us to evaluate draft picks — not the players, but the currency value of when you make trades. I put together an algorithm that gave us a better cut-up exchange rate and currency value, one that happened to be consistent with Bill's intuition already. Bill was known as a master of draft trades. And I didn't back into it. It just happened to actually verify his genius. The fact that we built something that matched that was what proved myself to him.



What's one innovation that's cutting-edge right now that's going to be commonplace in five years?

I think virtual reality, both in the scouting and playing side, but also on the fan-experience side. I think that's something that's underexplored right now.

From an analytics standpoint, something that's really underexplored is preventing injuries — soft-tissue injuries, ACLs, Achilles tears. Is there a way to better measure players' propensity for having those types of injuries? Because right now, those are just freak injuries. If a player tears his Achilles, he's out 14 months. It could be his career. But is there something about him that made him more susceptible to tearing his Achilles? Or was it, in fact, a complete fluke? I don't know. But I'd like to see more research in that area.

This is how you go from being able to draft Fournette in the first round to talking yourself into how much better value a 6th round pick is because he does what Fournette can do for 1/10th the price, except without all the yards and touchdowns, which are highly over rated.

Basically they'll take a lessor player if he's cheaper.

lol great