NFL Football Analytics is a data-driven guide to understanding professional football through statistics and modeling. This textbook covers the analytical frameworks used by NFL front offices, media analysts, and sports betting professionals.
You'll learn to work with NFL play-by-play data, build expected points added and win probability models, evaluate quarterback performance, analyze draft value, and construct predictive models for game outcomes. The book covers both traditional statistics and modern machine learning approaches.
With detailed examples using real NFL data and practical code implementations, this textbook bridges the gap between sports analytics theory and application. It's designed for data scientists, fantasy football analysts, and anyone who wants to understand football at a deeper analytical level.