{"591134":{"#nid":"591134","#data":{"type":"news","title":"When It Comes to NFL Draft Day, \u0022Nerds\u0022 Increasingly Have Their Say","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs sure as the Cleveland Browns will make a pick this weekend that leaves everyone scratching their heads, at some point over the next 72 hours the NFL draft will throw the Los Angeles Rams a late-breaking curveball.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA player they were locking in on will get drafted a pick or two before their turn.\u0026nbsp;Or another team will tempt them with a trade offer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd all of a sudden Plan A will turn into Plan B, at which point general manager Les Snead will turn to Georgia Tech math wiz Rebecca Lally and computer geeks Ryan Garlisch and Jake Temme and snap off a bunch of questions about a pool of players he is contemplating.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETogether, Temme, Lally and Garlisch head up the Rams\u0026rsquo; two-year-old analytics department. They are one of about 15 or so fully devoted data-crunching offices across the NFL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead more here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2pd1PNR\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2pd1PNR.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe LA Rams are using ISyE alumna Rebecca Lally\u0026#39;s data analytics to give them an edge in this weekend\u0026#39;s NFL draft.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The LA Rams are using ISyE alumna Rebecca Lally\u0027s data analytics to give them an edge in this weekend\u0027s NFL draft."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2017-04-28 19:35:53","changed_gmt":"2017-04-28 19:36:28","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591133":{"id":"591133","type":"image","title":"The three members of the Rams\u2019 analytical department (l-r): Jake Temme, Rebecca Lally, and Ryan Garlisch ","body":null,"created":"1493407492","gmt_created":"2017-04-28 19:24:52","changed":"1493408099","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 19:34:59","alt":"The three members of the Rams\u2019 analytical department \u2013 (left to right) Jake Temme, Rebecca Lally and Ryan Garlisch","file":{"fid":"225233","name":"draft-analytics-0427.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/draft-analytics-0427.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/draft-analytics-0427.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":78530,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/draft-analytics-0427.jpg?itok=od342luI"}}},"media_ids":["591133"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174280","name":"Los Angeles Rams"},{"id":"174093","name":"NFL Draft"},{"id":"167437","name":"sports analytics"},{"id":"133941","name":"rebecca lally"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}