http://www.mcall.com/sports/college...ootball-explosive-offense-20180913-story.html
an interesting read.
an interesting read.
Analytics And Penn State Football.
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yup it is, they talked about the correlation between winning and turnovers, I wonder what the correlation between explosive plays and winning?
also on D what is the correlation between winning and preventing explosive plays?
Awesome. Great stuff.
Reminds me of a video I just saw with Kobe. He was saying that he'd try to get guys to show up early and leave late for practice. When they didn't, he'd offer to hang with them. He'd go out until 2 in the morning and then still show up at 5 am to shoot around before practice. When the other party players showed up, he'd say I asked you to hang with me and you didn't. So I hung with you and still showed up early. If you want to win championships, you've got to figure out the balance between your personal and professional lives. If you want championships, to be like Kobe, changes need to be made.
Reminds me of a video I just saw with Kobe. He was saying that he'd try to get guys to show up early and leave late for practice. When they didn't, he'd offer to hang with them. He'd go out until 2 in the morning and then still show up at 5 am to shoot around before practice. When the other party players showed up, he'd say I asked you to hang with me and you didn't. So I hung with you and still showed up early. If you want to win championships, you've got to figure out the balance between your personal and professional lives. If you want championships, to be like Kobe, changes need to be made.
Exact opposite of what we see 135 miles West of Beaver Stadium. The Meathead Model - where the solution to any issue, large or small, is - get a bigger hammer.He has folks...… lots of them.... to do all the "grunt work".
What IS key, is that CJF is intelligent enough to (to a large degree) break out of the mold of the traditional "book"..... and actually DO those things which make a positive impact (whether that be game-planning, decision-making, or how he runs a practice)
He may not be perfect - who is - but he is, relatively, near the very, very top in the profession in this regard - - - - - and that has benefitted PSU's Program significantly.
On the whole, the profession is moving in a direction where their is more intelligence and reason applied, to those areas that SHOULD have intelligence and reason applied - which is a very good thing
CJF, Urby, and several others - - - - - including the Coach coming in this week, from Kent St - - - - are working to break out of the bounds of stupidity - particularly wrt "game management" - that really shackled the profession for a long time (on the down side, when and if "more intelligent" becomes the norm, PSU will lose an advantage that they currently possess)
While I think analytics in general is good I think it can become a circular reasoning thing sometimes. Of course having fewer turnovers makes you way more likely to win but does that change how you play? Here's a surefire way to have fewer turnovers than your opponent, have your QB take a knee every play.
The teams play how they play and the ones that flub less on offense and do better on defense by creating turnovers is likely to win the game but the turnovers aren't the cause but rather are the effect.
Turnovers are in the causal pathway. It goes like this
Playing well -> More likely to have fewer turnovers than the opponent -> More likely to win.
You can't start with winning the turnover war, rather it's the result of playing well.
The teams play how they play and the ones that flub less on offense and do better on defense by creating turnovers is likely to win the game but the turnovers aren't the cause but rather are the effect.
Turnovers are in the causal pathway. It goes like this
Playing well -> More likely to have fewer turnovers than the opponent -> More likely to win.
You can't start with winning the turnover war, rather it's the result of playing well.
New Panthers owner David Tepper has told his coaching staff he wants a forward-thinking approach to the game, which includes a focus on analytics.
Tepper noted that the Panthers called more passes on first down in Week One than they typically did in past years, and he said analytics had shown that’s a wise approach.
“Those first-down passes,” Tepper told Panthers.com. “I’m real focused on analytics, and we hadn’t really done that before. I loved the mix of plays. The first down passing was a new look for this team.”
Some of the most successful owners in the NFL, including New England’s Robert Kraft and Philadelphia’s Jeffrey Lurie, have said they attribute much of their teams’ success to a focus on analytics. Tepper said he expects his football people to follow that lead.
“You have to incorporate modern ideas,” Tepper said. “I just want to make sure analytics are applied. I don’t want human biases to alter what we think is correct or not correct. There is an openness to it here, which is good. I want a tough mentality, I like grittiness, but this is a new age.”
The Panthers are off to a 1-0 start in the new age that Tepper is bringing in. Tepper knows one game is far too small a sample size to draw any big conclusions, but he’s pleased with what he’s seeing so far.
Tepper noted that the Panthers called more passes on first down in Week One than they typically did in past years, and he said analytics had shown that’s a wise approach.
“Those first-down passes,” Tepper told Panthers.com. “I’m real focused on analytics, and we hadn’t really done that before. I loved the mix of plays. The first down passing was a new look for this team.”
Some of the most successful owners in the NFL, including New England’s Robert Kraft and Philadelphia’s Jeffrey Lurie, have said they attribute much of their teams’ success to a focus on analytics. Tepper said he expects his football people to follow that lead.
“You have to incorporate modern ideas,” Tepper said. “I just want to make sure analytics are applied. I don’t want human biases to alter what we think is correct or not correct. There is an openness to it here, which is good. I want a tough mentality, I like grittiness, but this is a new age.”
The Panthers are off to a 1-0 start in the new age that Tepper is bringing in. Tepper knows one game is far too small a sample size to draw any big conclusions, but he’s pleased with what he’s seeing so far.
The press conference this week with CJF went into the role the grad assistants and consultants played. It was interesting. CJF went into how they rely on them for statistical analysis of opponents so that they're ready to finalize a game plan for the next opponent ASAP. I would imagine as the season progresses the tendencies of opponents from a metrics standpoint solidify, making analytics both more effective and more crucial.
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