{"551311":{"#nid":"551311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumni Spotlight: On the Field: Moneypuck","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost professional sports leagues and teams have embraced data analytics as a way to evaluate player performance and influence playcalling, a movement most famously depicted in the book and movie \u0022Moneyball.\u0022 But the National Hockey League has been relatively slow to embrace the approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaseball, after all, has been a stats-driven sport for decades, and its fans are well versed in the value of BA, ERA, WHIP and even OPS and BABIP. And football not only employs an endless array of complex, drawn-up plays and schemes on both sides of the ball, but also collects and critically analyzes data on its players\u2019 physical attributes and skills\u2014such as height, speed, bench press repetitions and even hand size\u2014like few other sports do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENot long after NHL executives started looking beyond their scouts to bring in non-traditional voices into the decision-making processes that shape their multimillion dollar franchises, Alexandra Mandrycky, IE 13, was ready to be heard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough watching and studying hockey was merely a growing hobby while she worked on her industrial engineering degree at Tech, Mandrycky realized that the data analytics she picked up from the sport also applied to her undergraduate classes. After she got out of Tech, Mandrycky decided to pursue data analytics in the hopes it could make following hockey something much more than a pastime.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMandrycky\u2019s own shot at securing a job with an NHL squad first came through a consultant gig with the Minnesota Wild last September. In January, that turned into a full-time position as a hockey operations analyst. \u201cIt\u2019s still surreal that I\u2019m working for a pro hockey team,\u201d Mandrycky says. \u201cIt says a lot about the Minnesota Wild that they are open to outside voices.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the rest of Mandrycky\u0027s profile here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/29noiO5\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/29noiO5.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlexandra Mandrycky (B.S. 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