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Updated NFL analytics staffer list!*
As always, this list is to the best of my understanding based both on what teams list and conversations with analytics folks around the league.
(*Re-posting because I had a mistake on previous post)
OK I’ll weigh in because there’s a few different arguments here.
If you know the true odds, it doesn't matter if you have one chance or 1,000. And the idea that it does is foolish.
But in football we don’t know the true odds. So, a more charitable interpretation...
Kyle Shanahan says a 51% analytics recommendation won’t convince him to go for it because he gets one shot, not an hour at a blackjack table
“I don’t want to hear about it if it’s 51% of the time we should go for it.”
“As I always say, I’m not sitting here playing Blackjack for an hour with no one else at the table, and eventually I’ll get 51% of it. Like, I have this one try, and I have a feel for it. I’ve been doing it too long.”
“But what I want to know from him, when it’s not a feel, when it, no, this is 98%. We don’t even need to talk about it. So we don’t need to talk about it. Tell me when it’s that, and I’ll just do it.”
But we do not see that. Last year Kyle Shanahnan went for it on 4th down just one time when our model recommended a punt or kick by any margin. But he punted or kicked 24 times when it recommended go.
It’s a good question and the answer is: depends what you’re looking for!
Description of what happened overall thus far? Combined score.
But if I’m betting a corner going forward, usually Phase 1.
Wrote about Sauce last week! xitter.cf/sethwalder/status/2111…
One outstanding challenge is zone coverage when a corner’s receiver responsibility changes mid-play. The ghost/metric does not handle that as well as I would like, but fixes I’ve tried to implement thus far have not helped.
This, though, is mitigated by the fact that…