Patriots Hamstring Data Success
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A story about how Marcus Elliott, a Harvard MD graduate, helped the New England Patriots dramatically reduce hamstring injuries using data analytics.
"There's this guy named Marcus Elliott, I read about him in this wonderful book called The Comfort Crisis. He got his MD from Harvard and thinks he's gonna go down this route of being a doctor, but he kind of hates it. So he goes into sports and decides to work for the Patriots.
The Patriots had an issue where they had something like 21 hamstring pulls per year and they're like 'dude our guys keep getting hurt, it's losing us millions of dollars, help us out.' Dr. Elliott helps them out and they reduce their hamstring pulls to only 3 per year.
The MLB sees this and they're like 'hey you're the man, come do that for us.' He works for Major League Baseball and helps reduce injuries significantly. Eventually he opens up his own facility where athletes - most NBA players, a lot of baseball players - go. He's got this beautiful facility where they do 3D analytics and look at your body and say 'you have a weakness here, you have a strength here, let's capitalize on this, we need to fix this otherwise you're gonna get hurt.' LeBron, all these guys go to him."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.