By Daniel Adler Did you know the Patriots are playing the Colts this week? Peter King sure does. As the Monday Morning QB has pointed out, this marks the seventh straight year the teams have played and fifth straight time it...
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By Jonathan Adler Almost every NFL game begins a little differently this season. In the wake of mounting player injuries on kickoffs, the NFL banned kick return teams from “wedge blocking.” Previously, three or four blockers...
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By Jonathan Adler In Super Bowl XXXVI, New England kicker Adam Vinatieri’s 48-yard field goal attempt sailed through the uprights, clinching a world championship for the Patriots. Nearly eleven years before Vinatieri’s kick...
By Daniel Adler Here at the Sports Analysis Collective, we often do some pretty complex analysis. However, this post is about something at which this guy excels. One thing that has always interested me is a coach’s...
By David Roher Update: An astute commenter below pointed out a key mathematical error that I made. The corrected values on the table are in italics. It seems that every game in a short series gets classified as either a...
By Jake Fisher Last NFL season, I looked at how single-back rushing systems (one primary running back) compared to multi-back rushing attacks. It turned out that multi-back teams ran the ball slightly better. Share...
By Jake Fisher People love to talk about competitive parity in sports, most of the time to say that it doesn’t exist. The Wall Street Journal article, linked above, takes a stand that the salary cap/floor structure of the NFL...