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

There’s a quote with one of the PFF guys asking why now for the book. I have to say, I get charting the rise of this analytic behemoth is interesting, but we’ve barely begun to see where we’re going in all of this. It also just glosses over a lot of conflict points to give PFF a brighter shine. In 2......more

A very matter of fact oral history of the rise of PFF and some of the characters involved. It reads more like a long, well researched piece on the Athletic than a book book, but it gets the job done.......more

This was a fantastic book and anyone remotely interested in football should read it. A lot like PFF itself, this book is about more than just numbers. It’s the story of the people behind that data, the why behind why that data is so important, and what that means for football going forward.......more

The story of Pro Football Focus and its rise as a company and rise of relevance is an interesting one. “Football is a Numbers Game” however, suffers from a subject matter that I believe is unbeknownst to the majority of football fans. The idea of analytics in football is interesting, however, the ma......more

For some reason i figured there’d be a little more actual discussion of analytics and how they’ve shaped modern football as that was an aspect that brought me back into really following the sport but it’s all about the behind the scenes of the modern movement. A Moneyball esque look at one of the bi......more