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Truths, Whole Truths, and Advanced College Football Statistics: Bill Connelly Answers Questions About the Georgia Bulldogs
Bill Connelly writes for Football Outsiders, Rock M Nation, Football Study Hall, and SB Nation, and he and I have a lot in common. In addition to our shared association with the finest sports blogging network of them all, Bill and I both root for SEC teams that recently have dealt with embarrassing...
2011 NFL Draft: An Expanded Model for Predicting QB Career Performance (Cont'd)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the continuation of yesterday's post. I'm just starting it from where I left off. Click here to read the first half. Oh, and again, WARNING: EXPLICIT STATISTICAL CONTENT! All in all, I tested 11 models: Sample Predictors Result ...
2011 NFL Draft: The Sanchez-Flacco Myth of QB Performance
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is Part 4 of a 5-part series on predicting the career performance of NFL QBs. Sorry about the delay, but had unexpected family obligations come up yesterday. I'll be posting Part 5 of Monday at 8 a.m. PDT. I'm going to make a prediction. No, not one related to QBs - not yet at...
2011 NFL Draft: About High QB Draft Picks, Riddle Me This
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is Part 3 of a 5-part series on predicting the career performance of NFL QBs. For the rest of the week, I'll be posting a new installment every day at 4 p.m. PDT. Yesterday, in Part 2 of this series, I did some deep thinking about the purpose of NFL-outsider QB projection and...
2011 NFL Draft: My Philosophy for Predicting QB Performance
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is Part 2 of a 5-part series on predicting the career performance of NFL QBs. Today's posting is at 2 p.m. PDT because the 2011 NFL schedule is coming out at 4 p.m. For the rest of the week, though, I'll be posting a new installment every day at 4 p.m. PDT. Yesterday, in Part 1...
2011 NFL Draft: For the Love of Peyton, the Wonderlic is NOT Related to QB Performance!
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is Part 1 of a 5-part series on predicting the career performance of NFL QBs. I'll be posting a new installment every day this week at 4 p.m. PDT. A couple of years ago, I did a post detailing my re-analysis of David Lewin's QB prediction system, known as the Lewin Career...
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Football Offensive Drive Efficiency In 2010
On Tuesday we looked at the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defense and how efficient it was at stopping the opponent. We saw that Tech was either good and stopped teams early (Virginia) or bad and allowed the opponent to run all over them no matter where they started on the field (Miami). Today,...
Review: The Pro Football Historical Abstract (And A Look At Football Statistics)
(CN community members note - I'll be reviewing college football books again this off-season. They obviously won't be all about Nebraska, but I believe that Husker fans more than anyone are students of the game of college football. I certainly am.) A while back, like before the beginning of the...
Is the 2009 Boise State football team battle-tested? Survey says ...
A chief concern of Boise State Bronco fans is and always will be the unerring sucktitude of the WAC. Conference pushovers cost BSU more national respect than anyone will ever know, and blowout after blowout fail miserably to prepare Boise State for games against bigger and better teams. At least,...
A Statistical Look at Drafting QBs: LCF Reduxe
Back in October, I introduced the Lewin Career Forecast (LCF) to Niners Nation (NN). To put it mildly, the post stirred up some lively debate, and signaled the beginning of a still-raging internecine battle on NN over the appropriateness of football stat analysis. Just to refresh everyone's memory,...
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