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Draft Focus: 3 Potential First Round Edge Rushers
Last week I took a look at the top prospects at one of the Ravens’ biggest positions of need on the offensive side of the ball. For this article, I wanted to highlight some of the top prospects that may be available in the first round to address what is arguably the...
Draft Focus: Scouting the top WRs
Heading into the 2017 Draft, the Ravens have a number of positions of need that they will likely look to address early in the first round. One of the more glaring needs is at WR and there are three highly rated prospects that could be on the board when the Ravens...
The Fit of Analytics in the Game and Business of Football
Data are plentiful in the game of football. Newly introduced radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology produces real-time player tracking data[1]. Football is becoming a big data problem.A team's record is extremely objective and exact. But what about all the...
Ravens Three Round Mock Draft
It’s the time of the year for the mock draft! I am sure everyone who has any interest in the NFL Draft has seen headlines for half a dozen or more mocks whether they want to or not, and those numbers will only increase as we get closer to the Draft. There are hundreds...
Digesting the Ravens free agency moves
It’s only been one day, but it seems like a whole lot has happened in the past 24 hours. The Ravens for the first time in a long time made a big splash signing in free agency, inking Safety Tony Jefferson to a 4 year deal worth $36 million dollars. They also brought...
Football and Analytics – Part 2
The current landscape of football analytics inside the NFL is ever-evolving. The presentation of the discussion started on a previous past on BSL.Here are some recent examples of football analytics in the NFL:The Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick were early...
Takeaways from the NFL Scouting Combine
The Ravens have long been considered one of the better drafting teams in the NFL, and likewise, the Ravens as an organization put an emphasis on building the roster through the draft while supplementing via free agency. However, recent years have resulted in some...
Football and Analytics
As the NFL season begins its annual draft cycle, I'll start a series on analytics and football. Predicting player success before the draft is big discussion and big business.The game of football is flooded with emotion. Fans, players, coaches, executives and owners...