shades fills you in

Stats are all the rage in football these days. But The Atlantic says they’re a proper “boogeyman” to fans, media, and many grizzled coaches. Quant nerds swear they work though. So what’s up?

Tacklesmart says they mostly don’t work. Sure, they’re valuable sometimes, but football is insanely complicated. We should trust the human eye in most situations

But analyst Nick Wright says people hate on stats way too much. “The only time we talk about analytics is when they don’t work. But everybody ignores when they do, which is often”

AFCA: analytics win games, pure and simple. You want your team to do well?? You gotta embrace the numbers!