Marathe believes that with enough of a sample size, teams can better identify trends that reflect when players are more likely to get hurt, and how seriously.

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They struggled to break a stubborn second-wicket stand worth 82 between Sushant Marathe (65) and Paul Valthaty (44), but three wickets then fell to the spinners and England seemed to be on top.

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Marathe , first hired by Bill Walsh in 2001 to analyze the NFL draft (which player characteristics tend to be overvalued or undervalued, for example), also spoke about the challenges faced by the number-crunching set trying to work their way up the sports front office ladder.

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