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No, seriously. They don’t. Earlier today, I came across this tweet from Warren Sharp; The thread this tweet is part of is excellent, but this was the tweet that really caught my eye. According to Sharp, the Chargers don’t actually have an analytics department.
Surely not. They’ve got to have a few people crunching the stats, even if it’s an undersized, underutilised group working out of a basement... right?
Well, no. Apparently not. I did some research, and it seems like the Los Angeles Chargers genuinely don’t have a single person looking at analytical data for the team.
Here’s their website, listing all the ‘front office’ staff that work for the team. There’s no job on there even remotely related to analytics, but they do have these jobs listed:
Special Assistant (I know this is LaDainian Tomlinson, but what a terrible job title).
Special Counsel (Oh hi, Mark Fabiani).
Special Advisor (Dean sure likes making people feel special, huh?)
National Crosschecker (Cool name!)
Team Chaplain (Most teams hav
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Surely not. They’ve got to have a few people crunching the stats, even if it’s an undersized, underutilised group working out of a basement... right?
Well, no. Apparently not. I did some research, and it seems like the Los Angeles Chargers genuinely don’t have a single person looking at analytical data for the team.
Here’s their website, listing all the ‘front office’ staff that work for the team. There’s no job on there even remotely related to analytics, but they do have these jobs listed:
Special Assistant (I know this is LaDainian Tomlinson, but what a terrible job title).
Special Counsel (Oh hi, Mark Fabiani).
Special Advisor (Dean sure likes making people feel special, huh?)
National Crosschecker (Cool name!)
Team Chaplain (Most teams hav
More...