TheFinisher
03-06-2012, 06:22 PM
The Marriage of Stats and Football
By Bill Barnwell on March 5, 2012 1:41 PM ET
AP PHOTO/TONY DEJAK
Want to know how big the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has become? In the middle of the football analytics panel that I appeared on, I referenced the research that has been conducted on the futility of icing the kicker, only for panel moderator Andrea Kremer to quickly note that those numbers probably didn't apply to icing your own kicker, referencing Jason Garrett's gaffe at the end of the Cowboys-Cardinals game from December. While it elicited some laughs from the crowd, there was one person in the ballroom watching the panel who probably managed to stifle his laughter: Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett. Awkward.
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/19132/the-marriage-between-stats-and-football
By Bill Barnwell on March 5, 2012 1:41 PM ET
AP PHOTO/TONY DEJAK
Want to know how big the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has become? In the middle of the football analytics panel that I appeared on, I referenced the research that has been conducted on the futility of icing the kicker, only for panel moderator Andrea Kremer to quickly note that those numbers probably didn't apply to icing your own kicker, referencing Jason Garrett's gaffe at the end of the Cowboys-Cardinals game from December. While it elicited some laughs from the crowd, there was one person in the ballroom watching the panel who probably managed to stifle his laughter: Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett. Awkward.
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/19132/the-marriage-between-stats-and-football