A Hater’s Guide to Football Analytics

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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If you watch football, you’ve probably heard the word “analytics” so many times, it’s lost all meaning. But what if we told you there’s a better way to understand football analytics…by instead using the word “evidence?” Our resident football professor Bill Barnwell is here with a lesson in making sense of analytics, what it means when coaches use information to make decisions on the field, and what people get wrong when they criticize teams using analytics. We also look ahead to this weekend’s juiciest games, including a rematch between the Bills and Chiefs and an NFC East showdown between the Eagles and Cowboys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bill, people are mad, mad.
0:03.2	They are mad, they are offended.
0:05.9	And I don't think you have to pay super close attention to find out specifically even what
0:09.8	they are furious about at this moment.
0:14.7	Are you kidding me here?
0:16.7	What?
0:17.7	I mean, this is absolutely atrocious.
0:19.7	I got a plan for your brand, and Staley, it's called a punt.
0:23.2	That's where the rubber meets the road on analytics.
0:26.4	It is still football.
0:27.6	It is still a human driven game, and there are so many factors that can never be quantified.
0:32.9	And I don't want to hear this.
0:33.9	Remember they lost a child that could play us a very last game of the season?
0:36.6	You don't make a couple of those decisions if you brand the Staley or Ricky H. coach at
0:39.9	the time.
0:40.9	You probably in the playoffs last year.
0:41.9	You got the number two.
0:42.9	I love it.
0:43.9	Analytics says that you get drivers if you go forward.
0:46.3	Oh really?
0:47.3	Analytics know anything about having a backup quarterback in or anything else.
0:52.3	Anybody with a brain can tell you.
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