In 2007, the sports media couldn’t stop talking about “Spygate,” in which the New England Patriots were caught illegally taping sideline defensive signals from New York Jets coaches during the teams’ opening week matchup. It soon became known that Patriots coach Bill Belichick had been engaging in such activity since 2000, and although the league […]
One of the biggest talking points of the New York Giants’ preseason has come from comments made last week by Danny Langsdorf, the team’s new quarterbacks coach, in response to a question about Eli Manning’s objectives for the 2014-15 season. A pass completion rate of 70 percent “hasn’t been done very often, so that’s the […]
One of the biggest talking points of the New York Giants’ preseason has come from comments made last week by Danny Langsdorf, the team’s new quarterbacks coach, in response to a question about Eli Manning’s objectives for the 2014-15 season. A pass completion rate of 70 percent “hasn’t been done very often, so that’s the […]
One of the biggest talking points of the New York Giants’ preseason has come from comments made last week by Danny Langsdorf, the team’s new quarterbacks coach, in response to a question about Eli Manning’s objectives for the 2014-15 season. A pass completion rate of 70 percent “hasn’t been done very often, so that’s the […]
One of my absolute favorite early “sabermetric” football studies was conducted in early 2005 by Doug Drinen, the founder of Pro-Football-Reference.com. At the time, Drinen was spending a week guest-writing football posts at the blog of a fellow professor, the economist J.C. Bradbury, and was performing innovative statistical research using the first iteration of the […]
