This site will be my personal journal as I traverse various topics including: statistics, personnel evaluation criteria, predictive analytic concepts, and game theory as it relates to football. I have been researching football in one form or another for more than a decade. I played the game at the high school and collegiate level; I have studied the game extensively as a talent evaluator, researcher, and an analyst. One of the primary goals in putting this site together is to provide some constructive research and information and to continue to further my own knowledge. There are a number of great sites out there already that cover some of these topics in some shape or form: Chase Stuart’s footballperspective.com, Brian Burke’s advancednflstats.com, and profootballfocus.com. I have also read Matt Waldman’s mattwaldmanrsp.com and drawn some parallels between his view on evaluations and my own constructs.
The area I will focus on is the gap between raw football analysis with no consistent, data backed point of view; and the pure cold, hard numbers point of view. I have spent time studying both sides of the fence and believe there is a middle ground that has been lightly tread.