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Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by thefreeman on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:03AM (#33420595)
As a bit of an aside, the past few years have seen a drastic rise in coaches "going for it" on 4th down instead of punting in a lot of situations. This is mainly attributed to the rising use of analytics by coaching staffs.
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Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by bombcar on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:51AM (#33421974)
It can be directly attributed to people studying the stats - but it had been known for years that "going for it on 4th" was statistically better. But coaches were loathe to do it because if they did, and failed, they'd get yelled at for not doing it "normally", and if they succeeded nobody would notice.

It took quite awhile for that logjam to break.

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Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by kurtoesus on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:22AM (#33431974)
reminds me of the claim that the all the young mckinsey consultants fresh out of ivy league schools with no experience that are brought in are used as a way to justify layoffs and other decisions management already want to make, and then they can claim to rely on impartial outside judgement
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Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by kurtoesus on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:23AM (#33431980)
but in this case the coaches can point at the analytics egg heads now
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Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with Game... by alexpotato on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:20AM (#33435285)
Reminds me of the oil drop experiment story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan's...
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