Lessons from the NFL for football: Explosive Plays

Basically, I’m really bad at writing intros, but trust me — this is a fascinating article to read. My aim for this article is to delve into American Football, more specifically, the NFL and/or NCAA college football. The reason why? Firstly, I think it can be fascinating to really delve into other team sports all across the globe, because I think we can learn from certain patterns and methodologies and apply them to football. And, perhaps in time, I might actually try to do it vice versa.

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The Sky is the limit: introducing the Aerial Spatial Impact Rating (ASIR)

Asserting dominance is what many managers talk about. They talk about controlling midfield, central areas, and “wanting” it more. According to their knowledge and view, this would also lead to winning games thanks to that asserted dominance. It seems a bit of a wild idea, and I’m not sure there is a correlation. However, this is a worthy exercise to conduct in terms of data, so that’s why I’m taking you on this research data.

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Which teams are leading the set piece leaderboards?

I don’t think I have to tell you that I love set pieces. The whole reason I started looking at data metrics and models more, was the fact that I felt that there are so few metrics concerning set pieces. I think that’s still the case, but we are getting that there, one day at the time.

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