<p>Talk about regression candidates. Just over a month ago, football journalist Arif Hasan broke the news that analytics giant Pro Football Focus was <a href="https://www.wideleft.football/p/breaking-teamworks-to-acquire-pro">purchased by Teamworks</a>, an even larger analytics giant, for somewhere north of $130 million. According to Hasan, many employees working on the consumer side of PFF weren’t informed of the news by the company itself. It didn't take those poor souls very long to discover why that was. Shortly after the deal was consummated, many of those same employees <a href="https://frontofficesports.com/pro-football-focus-layoffs-company-sale/">were laid off</a>. HOORAY FOR EFFICIENCY! From Front Office Sports:</p>
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<p>PFF called employees to an all-hands meeting on Monday, during which it was announced that about half of them would be moving to the new company. PFF possessed both a content side and a data team—all 32 NFL teams subscribe to the company’s enterprise data set—and most of those who survived the layoffs were on the data side, a source said.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.wideleft.football/p/breaking-teamworks-to-acquire-pro">According to Hasan</a>, many of those laid off weren’t informed of the news by the company itself. They found out through secondhand sources on the internet, which is a bit ruthless even for a company founded on cold-blooded football data.</p>