Quote:I've said it several times before, football right now is in its analytical infancy like baseball was with Bill James and then the moneyball era so many years ago. And the pushback is similar too.

 

People couldn't wrap their minds around the fact that you could add these crazy things like walk rates, extra base hits, and park factors to improve the archaic batting average stat into OBP and now wOBA and wRC+. Now broadcasts are mentioning hit probabilities based on exit velocities and launch angles within seconds of a batted ball. 

 

Eventually football will get there too it's inevitable, and everyone will be better off for it. 

 

<div>Graham Barfield‏ @GrahamBarfield  Apr 3

Every year around Opening Day I’m reminded how far NFL analytics — both predictive and descriptive — lags behind MLB.

<div>Graham Barfield‏ @GrahamBarfield  Apr 3

Some NFL teams have made small steps implementing analytics on an organizational level. Still, football is light-years behind baseball.

<div>Graham Barfield‏ @GrahamBarfield  Apr 3

MLB teams/analysts have exit velocity, launch angle, hard hit%, etc. readily available. NFL is still resistant to RFID player tracking.

<div>Graham Barfield‏ @GrahamBarfield  Apr 3

This article about NFL analytics —and some of the quotes in it — still blows my mind:


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https://theringer.com/nfl-information-wa...b6eee2d39f

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