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Football Is a Numbers Game : Pro Football Focus and How a Data-Driven Approach Shook up the Sport by Matthew Coller (2023, Hardcover)

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"In the 1980s, Neil Hornsby was one of very few National Football League fans in England.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTriumph Books

ISBN-101637272189

ISBN-139781637272183

eBay Product ID (ePID)7059039300

Product Key Features

Book TitleFootball Is a Numbers Game : Pro Football Focus and How a Data-Driven Approach Shook Up the Sport

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicBusiness Aspects, General, Football

GenreSports & Recreation

AuthorMatthew Coller

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-019610

SynopsisIn the 1980s, Neil Hornsby was one of very few National Football League fans in England. Never one to do anything casually, he began keeping hand-written score sheets of every game using his own tracking system. Soon he'd enlisted some fellow British super fans in his mission to take football information an extra layer deeper. This was the beginning of Pro Football Focus, an analytics company that now supplies data to all 32 NFL teams and every major broadcasting corporation. PFF player grades appear on the screen during Sunday Night Football broadcasts, and PFF's pioneering research and analysis informs discussions at the highest level, from coaching to drafting to game-planning and player evaluation. In Football Is a Numbers Game , Matthew Coller chronicles this improbable start-up tale with unprecedented access, exploring the company's origin as a band of obsessive outsiders, its pivotal acquisition by Cris Collinsworth, and its role in the proliferation of data in the NFL and professional sports. Featuring a cast of memorable characters, this is a portrait of an unlikely business success as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the forces guiding modern NFL teams as they search for a competitive edge.

LC Classification NumberGV955.5.N35C647 2023