Decades Before Moneyball, The Dallas Cowboys Used Advanced Stats To Win Super Bowls
A. Salam Qureishi grew up in India and knew nothing about football — or America. And yet in the early 1960s, Qureishi, a computer programmer and statistician, helped the Dallas Cowboys overhaul their scouting system, replacing hunches with hard numbers. The result: five Super Bowl appearances and two titles. FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Films present “The […]
