Schaub had a decent resume too. Led the league in passing yards one year. Cutler shouldn't have got the deal he did. Alex Smith has a decent resume, but man you can't pay him that much. I'd rather pick up Josh McCown for pennies and improve my team elsewhere.
You've got to think they already do it, but I wonder to what degree do NFL teams use moneyball techniques to choose what players they pick up. It doesn't seem like they do it all too much.
It's hard ti moneyball in football. Some players really don't collect stats, and those who do have stats that are correlated to others stats. In baseball, players' performances can be separated by individual. Too many moving pieces in the NFL.
That doesn't mean some of the philosophy can't cross over, though.
“As a practical tool, Moneyball does not work in the NFL because there are very few undervalued players and no middle class because of our salary cap,” Polian told Tim O'Shei of Buffalo Business First in January. “There is no middle class in football because the minimum salaries are so high, and because of the salary cap, a player will reach a point where you can’t keep him. They go. They’re going to get big money elsewhere.”
He might be thinking about moneyball too literally. In the NFL it could apply to finding what players and positions are overvalued rather than under. Ex: You don't need to pay big $$$ or use a first day draft pick to get a serviceable RB. Does paying the extra money for a star RB's production outweigh the benefits gained from spending that money on upgrading the line + getting a worse RB?
But apparently the Bears do use it to a degree
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...8386--nfl.htmlEmery has consulted extensively with several services, and as he said on New Year's Day, it's going to be a major part of the equation as long as he's got a desk in the league.
Yeah, I didn't mean moneyball exactly as it was used in the MLB or even the NBA-- but rather the idea of the "true" value of a player. With the salary cap in the NFL, value optimization should play a much larger role than it does in any other sport imo.
Sure. I posted a few days ago that the new rule changes are actually devaluing individual QB becuase it's easier to play the position well.
I'm just saying...I'd rather my team had the 2000 Ravens defense than the 2013 Broncos offense.
Hey N0 LyF3 ScRuB....I got something for you last weekend while in Charlotte. See you Sunday.
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