The NFL has seen a significant rise in the use of analytics over the past few seasons. Head coaches across the league are using analytics to give them an edge.
But the NFL’s most successful team? They don’t rely on analytics.
“Analytics is not really my thing. I just try to evaluate what I see,” Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said in a press conference Friday afternoon. “For me, it’s just trying to evaluate where players are physically, mentally, emotionally in terms of playing football in their career and that’s really what I can go on. Certainly there’s some other components but, in the end, those are the main things.