Interesting interview of once Boston Red Sox beat writer and now Director of Statistical Analysis with the Flames.
http://joshkatzowitz.com/2014/05/28/...ed-sox-writer/
Some key points:
- Hockey hasn't made the same progress in integrating data as baseball, but there will be a lot more ground covered in the next few years
- Brian Burke is very interested in any information that can help make a better decision and very interested in any data that gives context to decision making.
- That involves the draft and the NHL team in the way that the team is coached and how information gets to the players.
- What Brian has meant when he has been viewed as an opponent to all this, is he doesn't view there to be A solution or A roadmap to make much much better decisions based on a criteria or two that people have defined as influencing success
- Doesn't think any team has dominated the draft based on analytic findings. No one is hitting on prospects at twice the rate because they have solved the draft.
- Hockey and baseball is still a people business. Getting to know people (e.g. drive, commitment) is probably going to be more important than any number someone comes up with.
The interview mostly deals the path Snow took to get his current job and what he sees in the future for his career. Useful I suppose if you plan on working with a pro sports team's front office.
Flames Director of Video and Statistical Analysis Chris Snow interview
