Football stats are getting more sophisticated. Long gone are the days of using simple volume stats to try and gain insight into player talent or player value. At least that’s the case if you are serious about your endeavor. We are firmly in the early stages of the analytics revolution in football. It took baseball by storm in the 2000s, basketball has rapidly accelerated its acceptance in the past fifteen years, and even soccer, which had been resistant to analytics, has seen a large increase in usage over the past five years.
Football is no different. And the ending will be much the same even if the sports are very different.