How many of the players, if any, realize quantitative analysis is taking place?
DO: When I communicate with them, I don’t talk about what I do. I don’t think may are aware of it. SC: What is your day like, say between games? DO: Well, there are two areas, the coaching responsibility and the personnel responsibility. I use numbers to help up prepare for the next game, or next series of games. These responsibilities are not necessarily daily. It could involve detailed information prepared about the opposition between games, and personnel issues, trade issues, players on our radar. For both aspects, I have to be sure that on the computer side I’m getting the information in the right format, and simplified. A lot of time is devoted to translating data into the right format, and checking it — making sure names are consistent, the difficult foreign names, and that the data is consistent. I look at how the data rise and fall, and what’s happening with us. The status of the team also dictates what is worked on. SC: Do you use the same, or different approaches, to evaluate
