Unlike Robert’s work this week, my contributions will be less focused on specific data and more on the meta-narrative of that data. That’s really where the discussion on current state of the college football analytics world begins and ends: what data we have, what type of data we have, and how we get access to it.
This feels like a very basic thing, right? Of course, data is important — no data means no nerds Posting charts on the Bird App™ufe0f, and we can’t have that. But there’s nuance in these details: the data guides insight.