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Analytics and the NFL: Finding Strength in Numbers

The MMQB senior writer Albert Breer said the NFL was caught off guard by the Kansas City Chiefs' decision to fire John Dorsey.

Paraag Marathe arrived in San Francisco with a very clear directive from the 49ers, to reimagine the Jimmy Johnson draft chart. And after a couple months work, the senior associate from the Boston consulting firm Bain readied to show team president Bill Walsh and GM Terry Donahue his findings, in disbelief at the results being spit back at him.

It was uncanny.

“I tried to use historical trends and true value,” says Marathe, now the Niners’ chief strategy officer and EVP of football operationsu200b.