Bonus episode: The Ringer's Austin Gayle talks about Football is a Number's Game

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Ringer's Austin Gayle, who worked at Pro Football Focus from 2016-2022, talks with Matthew Coller about Matthew's book "Football is a Number's Game" and describes the analytics revolution in football and what PFF does for teams. Check out the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Football-Numbers-Game-Data-Driven-Approach/dp/1637272189 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Hey everybody welcome to a very special episode of Purple Insider. Well I shamelessly
0:28.3	promote my own work. Austin Gail from the Ringer is with me formerly and a long time a pro football focus employee
0:37.6	rose the ranks there and then got a great opportunity now to work with the Ringer and
0:42.4	since my book football is a
0:44.2	numbers game is out which chronicles the entire journey of pro football focus
0:50.0	what it does for teams where it came, how it has influenced the league and the way people view football in a gazillion different ways.
0:58.0	Well, we're going to be doing some podcasts about it from time to time. And I figured Austin that I don't quite want to introduce the world to Neil Hornsby just yet
1:07.2	So you're going to lead off the self-promotion tour is what I'm gonna call it on the podcast
1:12.0	But I'm super proud to see you working for the
1:15.3	ringer now and building on your journey which is chronicled in the book which is truly
1:20.2	one of my favorite parts, all the things you went through to get to this point so
1:24.3	super happy for you and thanks for coming on to help me push my own stuff.
1:28.6	Absolutely yeah of course I'm happy to come on always like talking with you.
1:32.0	Yeah and I think a good place Of course, I'm happy to come on, I always like talking with you.
1:37.4	Yeah, and I think a good place to start is that you had a front row seat for the NFL beginning to adopt analytics.
1:40.8	And I think that the biggest thing that people are interested in when they asked me about writing this book is the analytics revolution in football.
1:49.0	Where are we in analytics usage and the role that PFF played in that.
1:54.8	I'd love to get your opinion on that, having been behind the scenes there working for PFF
1:59.2	as long as you did because I think that what we saw during the time that you worked there was the adoption of analytics in ways that it never had before.
2:10.0	People thought it could not be like baseball and it started to become that but I also think it's still very much in its infancy.
2:17.6	Absolutely when I first started with PFF as a part-time data collector in 2016 I was you know I think a junior or senior in college and I
2:28.0	wasn't I didn't have line of sight to a lot of decisions that Neil Hornsby was
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