As a reporter, when your hometown baseball team wins the World Series there is a tremendous urge to write about it. When your beat is the compliance business, the challenge is finding a way to bridge two very different worlds.

Compliance Week, as many of you may know, is based in Boston, home of the 2018 World Champion Red Sox. As such, we have been bombarded with coverage and analysis of the team’s October run. It was within the inevitable critiques and comparisons of Red Sox manager Alex Cora and L.A. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts that our mind turned to, as it often does, matters of compliance. Specifically: analytics.