Hidden Game of Football - A Revolutionary Approach to the Game and Its Statistics

"While the sabermetrics revolution in baseball is now fully institutionalized, other sports have embraced data analysis more slowly-especially American football. Yet thirty-five years ago, Bob Carroll, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer were laying the groundwork for the transformation of the sport when they wrote The Hidden Game of Football. Readers in 1988 found this book to be staggering, with myths and misconceptions 'left strewn in the wake of their analysis like the Columbia University secondary after a running play' (Allen Barra). Today, with statistical analysis becoming more widely accepted across the NFL, the book seems prescient and influential--as Aaron Schatz notes in his new foreword"--

About the author

Bob Carroll (1936-2009) was founder and executive director of the Professional Football Researchers Association and the author of more than twenty books, including When the Grass Was Real: Unitas, Brown, Lombardi, Sayers, Butkus, Namath, and All the Rest: The Best Ten Years of Pro Football.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Carroll, Bob Palmer Carroll, Pete Palmer, Palmer Pete, John Thorn
• Assisted by: Aaron Schatz (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9780226825861
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82586-1
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; USA, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Football, United States of America, USA, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer), GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Fantasy Sports