Football Is a Numbers Game
eBook - ePub

Football Is a Numbers Game

Pro Football Focus and How a Data-Driven Approach Shook Up the Sport

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eBook - ePub

Football Is a Numbers Game

Pro Football Focus and How a Data-Driven Approach Shook Up the Sport

About this book

In the 1980s, Neil Hornsby was one of very few National Football League fans in England. Never one to do anything casually, he began keeping hand-written score sheets of every game using his own tracking system. Soon he'd enlisted some fellow British super fans in his mission to take football information an extra layer deeper. This was the beginning of Pro Football Focus, an analytics company that now supplies data to all 32 NFL teams and every major broadcasting corporation. PFF player grades appear on the screen during Sunday Night Football broadcasts, and PFF's pioneering research and analysis informs discussions at the highest level, from coaching to drafting to game-planning and player evaluation. In Football Is a Numbers Game, Matthew Coller chronicles this improbable start-up tale with unprecedented access, exploring the company's origin as a band of obsessive outsiders, its pivotal acquisition by Cris Collinsworth, and its role in the proliferation of data in the NFL and professional sports. Featuring a cast of memorable characters, this is a portrait of an unlikely business success as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the forces guiding modern NFL teams as they search for a competitive edge.

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Information

Publisher
Triumph Books
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781637275900
Edition
1
Subtopic
Sport & Exercise Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Kevin Clark
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 - The Database
  8. Chapter 2 - PFF Is Born
  9. Chapter 3 - The New York Giants Come Calling
  10. Chapter 4 - Revenue and Competition
  11. Chapter 5 - Going All-In on PFF
  12. Chapter 6 - Sam and Steve Introduce PFF to the World
  13. Chapter 7 - Changing How Teams Operate
  14. Chapter 8 - The Acquisition
  15. Chapter 9 - Cris Collinsworth
  16. Chapter 10 - PFF and Sunday Night Football
  17. Chapter 11 - The Draft
  18. Chapter 12 - Coach’s Corner
  19. Chapter 13 - The Ballad of Austin Gayle
  20. Chapter 14 - Data Science
  21. Chapter 15 - An Influential Voice Rises and Exits
  22. Chapter 16 - The Big Data Bowl
  23. Chapter 17 - The Analytics GM
  24. Chapter 18 - PFF and the Agent
  25. Chapter 19 - Goodbye, Neil
  26. Epilogue