Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Cooler, where the revolution is televised. Let’s get to it:
*I read with interest a recent piece from The Ringer’s Kevin Clark about analytics in the NFL. His thesis is that the league is in the early stages of an analytics revolution — much like the ones we’ve previously seen take hold in baseball and basketball.
To a degree, the NFL has been dabbling in advanced metrics for a while. But the nature of the league — both in terms of an old-school mentality stifling change and a concession that the moving parts of the sport make isolating data more challenging — has made the NFL a later adopter.