How John Harbaugh and the Ravens Gained an Analytical Edge
Remember Lamar Jackson’s 8-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-2 that propelled the Ravens to a win against the Seattle Seahawks?
That was calculated.
As the NFL trends towards aggressiveness, the Ravens are at the forefront. They’ve been one of the most aggressive teams on fourth down this season, and The Athletic’s Sheil Kapadia profiled how Head Coach John Harbaugh and the offense have gained an analytical edge.
“In a sport where coaches constantly preach aggressiveness, many seem to prefer losing the game later over trying to win the game now,” Kapadia wrote. “Harbaugh has had seasons where he’s been among the most aggressive coaches in the league, but with Jackson and an offense that ranks third in overall efficiency, he’s taken it to another level in 2019.”
Daniel Stern, the team’s football analyst, sits beside Offensive Coordinator Greg Roman during games to help decide when to go for it on specific down and distance plays.
The role that was previously held by Running Backs Coach Matt Weiss now belongs to Stern, a behavioral economics major now in his fourth year with the team.
“During the week, Stern, Harbaugh and other members of the Ravens coaching staff come up with a plan for how they want to approach each game from a strategic perspective,” Kapadia wrote. “They decide on a set of rules that will give them the best chance to win, and Stern reminds Harbaugh of those rules on the headset during the game.”
The Ravens made a concerted effort to bolster their analytics department this offseason, hiring three analysts. General Manager Eric DeCosta has a close relationship with Baltimore Orioles Assistant General Manager Sig Mejdal and understands the importance that analytics play.
“Analytics is a way that I see of organizing information,” DeCosta said. “We have all these different pieces of information – bullet points and different things. How do we organize that information effectively? And, how do we use that information to help us make decisions?
“So, is it a growing field? Yeah, I think it is. Is it something that we’ll just rely on strictly, ever? No, I don’t think that’s the case. Is it something that will help us make decisions? I think it can be. We would be foolish as an organization to not look at that and consider that as a way of helping us be better.”
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