"If you avoided the Black Friday madness and stayed home to watch football, you are not only a person of high intelligence, you also saw a prime example of why "Analytics" has no place in football. You also saw why this abomination and its supporters need to be sacked and thrown out of the game. Yes, if you are a proponent of Analytics, that means you might be a dumbass."
"I personally blame "Moneyball" for this madness as much as I do any idiot who supports its use in football. That system might work for a candy-ass game like baseball. But the game of football is an alpha man's game. Cold, Hard Facts Football is not a game that can be defined strictly by cold, hard numbers. It is a game of physicality, of raw emotion, of players digging down deep to rise up and meet a challenge."
Analytics is unsuitable for football because the sport relies on physicality, raw emotion, and momentum that rigid numbers cannot capture. Football is played in extreme weather and involves violent contact, contrasting with baseball's susceptibility to minor conditions. Many game variables are intangible and fluid, including individual matchups, injured players who remain in play, weather and field conditions, the ebb and flow of momentum, and home versus road contexts. Computers and statistical systems cannot account for dozens of real-time variables and psychological factors. The adoption of analytics undermines the nature of football and damages coaching authenticity.
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