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Celebrates its First Anniversary - Website Seeks to Adapt
Principles of Sabermetrics to Bring Football Commentary into the
Moneyball EraInnovative NFL Stats and Analysis Website Football
Outsiders Celebrates its First Anniversary - Website Seeks to Adapt
Principles of Sabermetrics to Bring Football Commentary into the
Moneyball EraFootball Outsiders, the Web's top site for intelligent
football fans and innovative NFL stats, today celebrates its first
anniversary. In one year the website has grown from a handful of
fans to a thriving community of readers and writers who seek to
bring to pro football the concepts of sabermetrics that have become
famous in baseball due to the book Moneyball.FRAMINGHAM, MA July
30, 2004 -- http://www.footballoutsiders.com [Football Outsiders],
the Web's top site for intelligent football fans and innovative NFL
stats, today celebrates its first anniversary. In one year the
website has grown from a handful of fans to a thriving community of
readers and writers who seek to bring to pro football the concepts
of sabermetrics that have become famous in baseball due to the book
Moneyball. In its first year of existence, Football Outsiders has
been covered or had its writers quoted in such publications as The
Economist, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San
Francisco Chronicle, and Street and Smith's Pro Football 2004.
Internet news sources that have discussed the site include
ESPN.com, SI.com, Salon.com, and Slate.com. Football Outsiders has
also produced custom analysis on subjects including short-yardage
rushing and playoff penalties for NFL.com. The audience for
Football Outsiders grew from only 1800 unique visitors in August
2003 to over 31000 unique users in December 2003, the last month of
the regular season. Football Outsiders has been lauded by
sportswriters and NFL coaches alike. Gregg Easterbrook of NFL.com
says "Football Outsiders is the best independent football site on
the Web." According to King Kaufman of Salon.com, "Pro football, in
all its fluid complexity, has been crying out for years for the
kind of sophisticated statistical analysis that's been afforded
baseball. Football Outsiders is the best answer to that cry so far,
and it keeps getting better." NFL coaches also have come to
appreciate the analysis at Football Outsiders. The website has
worked with Jim Schwartz, defensive coordinator of the Tennessee
Titans, who calls it "the most accurate insight on the Web into why
teams really win and lose." Mike Eayrs, research director of the
Green Bay Packers, says "our work is much more scientific than most
articles and I like how you have worked to build context into your
measures." The creator and editor-in-chief of Football Outsiders is
Aaron Schatz, who until February was the writer of the Internet's
leading daily column on cultural trends, The Lycos 50. Schatz also
writes regularly on issues at the conjunction of sports and
culture/politics for The New Republic online. The four regular
columnists for Football Outsiders -- Schatz, Michael David Smith,
Russell Levine, and Al Bogdan -- also contributed to the upcoming
book Brassey's Pro Football Forecast 2004. The staff of Football
Outsiders is spread across NFL markets, based in Boston,
Providence, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York. Besides the
four regular columns, features of Football Outsiders include: A
daily weblog of the most important football news from around the
Web; Weekly updates of our sabermetric-style NFL stats; Regular
analysis of football's conventional wisdom and the proclamations of
sportswriters to check if they agree with actual historical data;
Numerous guest columns from readers on subjects ranging from
breakdowns of specific on field strategies to the inconsistency of
turnover statistics from year to year; An active community of fans
on discussion threads devoted to each article; and The unique comic
strip Draw Play from artist Jason Beattie. Upcoming features for
the 2004 season include objective projections of this season's
winners and losers based on four years of NFL stats and trends,
improved special teams statistics which take into account such
things as weather and altitude, the unveiling of our innovative
statistics for seasons from before the website launched, and a
public contest based on our unique twist to fantasy football, the
Loser League, which challenges fans to pick the league's worst
performing players. |
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