ADVEN T U RE S I N C O NS U LT I NG
VFT player evaluation: converting subjective assessments into quantifiable rankings.
sports zealot, Chris was very interested
but needed to understand the business
case before committing to this decision.
Jacob and I met to discuss the potential
opportunities and the growing application
of analytics in sports. Jacob highlighted a
number of areas where analytics could
be leveraged in the sports domain. More
importantly, they both recognized the
limited use of advanced analytics from
the O.R. discipline, which could quickly
be adapted to solve many problems in
sports, as many of the challenges are
similar to those being faced in defense.
In fact, Perduco was already working in a
number of these crossover areas.
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‘QUANTIFIED WARRIOR’
The defense community is very interested in what is called “quantified warrior,”
which is an ability to monitor and assess a
soldier’s condition and to understand how
to optimize their performance on the battlefield. As one can imagine, athletic teams are
very interested in maximizing their players’
performance “on the battlefield.” A second
example is related to overhead monitoring and the collection of surveillance data
to understand and predict activities on the
ground. The intelligence community is continuously engaged in this type of effort in
order to provide better assessments of enemy activity to commanders on the ground.
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