Well, after much encouragement from some of my co-workers and friends I have signed up for Twitter. If you enjoy being bored and hopefully (from time to time) entertained 140 words at at time feel free to start following me at http://twitter.com/#RSA_Bryan. I am planning on attending the MIT conference again next spring and will be “tweeting” from there. Last year’s conference featured attendees tweets on the big screen in between sessions and provided some nice entertainment on the breaks.
There is a lot to talk about in football. Some early guys who were grading out very well (Josh Freeman for example) are fading. I’m not sure where to begin on grading Tebow - we may need to develop special grading metrics just for him (maybe “Wildcat” or “TE playing QB”?). And of course, the old reliables (Brady, Rogers, Manning2) are confidently making their way through their respective schedules en route to leading their teams to another playoff appearance. Brady’s game yesterday against the Eagles was one of the most dominating performance by a QB that I’ve seen in a long time. It reminded me of watching Montana during his prime in that awesome Bill Walsh offense.
Unfortunately, I can’t provide much as far as insight for the later part of the season except for a big “I TOLD YOU SO”. The Patriots juggernaut, sans a few defensive hiccups, is rolling along again and most of their problems there can be traced back to the injury bug (did you see they had a wide receiver playing defense yesterday???). The last team to handily defeat the Patriots (Green Bay) is rolling as well. Everything that I just said above about Tom Brady can also be said about Aaron Rodgers. They both are just playing great with Green Bay’s defense getting the edge on overall team ratings.
In my last post I revealed that Real Sports Analytics “LIVE” is now available and a few of you have signed up and provided some excellent scores. I was taking a look at the model this morning and I hate to ask, but I need more! We really only have a handful of players scored so nothing can really be published on overall team strengths at this point (except for the obvious ones mentioned above). Please sign up, even if you can only provide 10-20 observations for the games you are watching it really does help. I can take those 10-20 and mix them in with others and we get some really good information. I will be publishing those results to my members in the very near future.
In the meantime, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and (as Mark Cuban tweeted) that you recover quickly from your food coma (me included).
