The Hidden Game of Football

The Hidden Game of Football is an influential book on American football statistics published in 1988 and written by Bob Carroll, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer. It was the first systematic statistical approach to analyzing American football in a book and is still considered the seminal work on the topic.

Advanced statistics in basketball, statistical analysis of basketball.
Analytics (ice hockey), statistical analysis of ice hockey.
Advanced Football Analytics, website dedicated to the statistical analysis of the NFL.
Ernie Adams, a Phillips Academy classmate of Bill Belichick whose role with the New England Patriots is compared to Bill James's role with the Boston Red Sox.
Football Outsiders, a website dedicated to the statistical analysis of football based on some of the concepts from The Hidden Game of Football.
Sabermetrics, statistical analysis of baseball.
Sean Lahman, creator of the Pro Football Prospectus series, author of The Pro Football Historical Abstract, and editor of ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia.
Sports rating system
Win probability

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