Watch: Cowboys’ newest big brain, Sarah Mallepalle, discusses analytics in football
The Cowboys are hiring Sarah Mallepalle as a Strategic Football Analyst, per sources.
Mallepalle had been a Player Personnel Analyst with the Ravens since 2019.
— Seth Walder (@SethWalder) June 17, 2023
The Dallas Cowboys continue to revamp their analytics department with quality hires who are well respected in the data community. John Park was brought in a few weeks ago to take over the division, and he’s wasted no time in beginning the rebuild. The Park hire was met with universal praise, not just for his own acumen, but for the network of other really intelligent people he was going to be able to tap into in order to build out that wing at The Star in Frisco.
His first hire, Sarah Mallapalle, hits on those sweet notes. Mallapalle is a Carnagie Mellon graduate with a BS in Statistics and Machine Learning from 2018. She spent a year in the Philadelphia Phillies organization before the NFL and has been with the Baltimore Ravens the last three seasons. In the below video, she was part of an esteemed panel at MIT Sloan, the Sports Analytics Conference. Various topics are covered with the panel, so you can spend 45 minutes and get a glimpse into the Cowboys’ newest big brain.
