Month: December 2015

  • Good as Gould?

    The Chicago Bears were hosting San Francisco two weeks ago. The game was tied with two seconds left in regulation. Robbie Gould, the Bears’ kicker since 2005, set up to try a 36-yard field goal. “Good as Gould,” Bears fans like to say. He’s one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history – 10th […]

  • Thoughts on Simulation and Statistical Modeling

    I often enjoy all the spreadsheets I’ve created while working on Front Office Football. Many of these spreadsheets track incidental elements. For example, I ran a lot of numbers a couple of years ago to analyze at what point owners fired their coaches. That’s helped produce a more accurate AI in terms of coaching turnover. […]