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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | St. Xavier University is for students who want more out of their future. |
0:04.1 | We pride ourselves on preparing graduates with the skills they need to succeed in life. |
0:08.7 | Visit xxu.edu to start plotting your path to a brighter tomorrow. |
0:13.7 | St. Xavier University, the best in you. Let me see |
0:28.5 | I'm excited to be joined by |
0:31.5 | former Atlanta Falcons GM |
0:33.2 | Thomas Demetrov, Eric Eager of Sumer Sports. |
0:35.4 | Guys, why don't just walk me through what you guys have created? |
0:38.3 | Well, look, what we are is we are a roster optimization company, and we are cutting-edge algorithmic-based, |
0:43.3 | and we're really excited about what we're putting together for NFL teams. |
0:48.3 | Basically, every NFL GM needs to be better at utilizing the data that is provided to them. There's so much underutilized |
0:55.8 | data in the league right now. It can help it can help augment their skills for any of us, any of us, |
1:01.3 | some of us who have been there before and some of us who are in that job right now, it's the way of |
1:05.5 | the future. There's definitely the evolutionary side of the NFL that needs to be tapped into. |
1:09.7 | And I'll let Eric comment on some of |
1:11.7 | the specifics yeah yeah for sure I mean so we have people from you know NFL teams we have people from |
1:16.9 | football focus where I came from before we have you know you know quants and salary cap people and |
1:23.1 | and engineers and what we're trying to do is take all the great work that football analytics has done |
1:27.3 | for 12 years 15 years and try to combine it into one thing, right? So you can do player evaluation |
1:31.9 | really well, but do you know how to manage the cap? Do you have to do those things simultaneously |
1:36.6 | to build the roster? And what we're doing with our optimization tools is to give GMs the quickest |
1:42.3 | and most efficient way to apply their subject matter expertise to the roster building. |
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