Executive Summary NEW The recent US Supreme Court decision to overturn the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) now gives states the decision to authorize and legislate sports gambling. The increasing NFL point spread offerings from the betting market expansion will yield more opportunities to attack market imbalances. A successful game score differential predictive model founded on a proprietary … Read More
Football and Analytics – part 2
The current landscape of football analytics inside the NFL is ever-evolving. Here are some recent examples of football analytics in the NFL: The Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick were early adopters of analytics. Ernie Adams has worked for the Patriots over the past 15 years in the area of data analysis. The late Browns owner Art Modell notably quipped: … Read More
Football and Analytics
As the NFL season begins its annual draft cycle, I’ll start a series on analytics and football. Predicting player success before the draft is big discussion and big business. The game of football is flooded with emotion. Fans, players, coaches, executives and owners each have high stakes in a sport where extreme athleticism, speed and power create action seen nowhere … Read More
Critical Situations by Analytics
“In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein The conversation often focuses on adversity, not success. You’ve heard that “Adversity doesn’t build character…It reveals it!” In this piece, I will present the response of teams in two very particular situations and relate it to season win totals. Let’s start general and quickly focus in How do units … Read More
Power Rankings for NFL Analytics
Analytics, Moneyball, Metrics….. The bottom line in professional sport is and always will be the scoreboard. Two numbers compared to each other when the contest has concluded. Pretty simple. Not too confusing. Attention: NFL Analytics Power Rankings Below What is analytics? A few definitions: 1) The method of logical analysis or the field of data analysis. 2) The discovery, interpretation, … Read More