I’ve heard tell that analytics are not at the heart of the recent NBA trades. This new nomadacy (my word) is solely driven by the emotional ‘feel’ players have for each other, systems, and how they feel they would best work together in situations. Coaches seem almost secondary outside of Doc Rivers. Players want to play in a place and feel they know best how to do that. No analytics needed, unless the analytics are being performed in the biological computers they house behind their eyes.
Less so for football. I’m convinced that analytics played a part in a number of signings this season. These are teams that understand the systems their coaches are running and have signed players suited to exploit or at least enhance those systems. I feel that personally, because I spent a few months working on a system that plays to the talents of a handful of players I am working with and I have been out aggressively recruiting the others I need to make that system whole. I hope the Giants are thinking the same thing, because it looks like they’ve assembled pieces with a mindset of playing chess on both sides of the ball. I’m a fan. I’m hoping it goes the way that it can with that team. I am hoping Eli rides off into the sunset with a playoff appearance and maybe more under his belt. Football is unpredictable. We will need to wait and enjoy seeing.
Some Thoughts:
- Found out today that there is a major conflict with my boy’s team in terms of when and where practice is being held. This is going to be a situation for a number of reasons. He cannot make all the practices and to make matters worse, the team he is on is playing unweighted football and in Pop Warner that means you need to weigh 105 minimum. He’s 83. He isn’t going to make weight.