by Willie Sean Coughlan | Jul 3, 2020 | High School
The sport of football is taking a hit like it hasn’t absorbed since World War II, when hundreds of schools had to suspend play, and more than 1,000 college and pro players went off to serve in the war. The COVID-19 pandemic will surely leave a lasting effect on a...
by Mike Lowe | Jul 17, 2017 | College Football
Length of Games – It’s ridiculous, and getting worse. In 2013 the average time-of-game was 3 hours 17 minutes. In 2016 it was 3 hours 24 minutes. Those seven minutes might not seem like much, but think of it in terms of weather. The Weather Channel might tell...
by Andy Guyader | Mar 9, 2017 | NFL
The current landscape of football analytics inside the NFL is ever-evolving. The presentation of the discussion started on a previous past on BSL.Here are some recent examples of football analytics in the NFL:The Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick were early...
by Andy Guyader | Mar 1, 2017 | NFL
As the NFL season begins its annual draft cycle, I’ll start a series on analytics and football. Predicting player success before the draft is big discussion and big business.The game of football is flooded with emotion. Fans, players, coaches, executives and...
by Jason Butt | Jul 3, 2014 | Baltimore Ravens
The Patriots were onto something when they drafted Rob Gronkowski and the now-disgraced Aaron Hernandez in 2010. Of course, for as great as the two were when working in tandem, it became all for naught due to Hernandez’s (alleged) awful character as a human...