Watch: Cowboys’ newest big brain, Sarah Mallepalle, discusses analytics in football

A 2022 panel at MIT Sloan gives us a glimpse into the newest Cowboys’ front office hire and what she’ll bring to the table. | From @KDDrummondNFL

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.