The Ultimate Team Sport: Building Better Football Rosters with Analytics

Steve Palazzolo - Head of Product for the Football Division, Pro Football Focus (PFF)
Thomas Dimitroff - CEO, SumerSports
Kevin Demoff - Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles Rams
Jacqueline Davidson - Senior Director of Football Research, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Seth Walder (moderator) - Analytics Writer, ESPN

 

Football teams across the NFL are using analytics to build an edge over their competition, with improved roster construction being a chief use case. This has also created numerous opportunities for companies to build solutions that provide teams with the data and analytics they need to truly create an edge. Super Bowl winning executives and leaders from SumerSports and PFF convene on this panel to discuss how teams are currently using analytics to build that edge. Potential areas of discussion include how teams are building through the draft, how to prioritize cap allocation to the correct players and positions, approaches to free agency, and the handling of all the variables that come with trading. Panelists will touch on how teams are deploying analytics today, what has and hasn’t worked well in the league thus far, and where teams will be putting more of their analytics focus in the coming years.