Episode 126 - Football 101: Advanced Football Stats with Bill Connelly

In what is (hopefully) the first of many installments, Rich and Max are joined by Bill Connelly of SBNation and Football Study Hall Fame to get a crash course in advanced stats and talk about his newest book project. They close the show with some listener mail and talk the hire of Jim Leonhard - something neither of them saw coming. SHOW LINKS: BACK BILL'S BOOK!! BILL'S TOUR OF THE B1G SHOW NOTES: 4:00 Welcome SBNation's Bill Connelly 5:00 Least valuable stats? 6:15 Which stats should be used less? 8:00 The 5 factors of S&P+ 9:30 How did Bill get involved with advanced stats? 13:15 Defining success rate 15:00 The randomness of being... And the randomness of turnovers 17:15 How F/+ combines two systems 18:45 Preseason rankings 23:00 Accounting for coaching turnover... Or not 26:45 A statistical look at Stave 28:15 A brief history of Wilcox 30:00 Andy in Chicago and the limitations of football stats 32:15 Dan in DC and why the NFL is more pass heavy 34:15 THE BOOK! BUY IT! 43:00 Brin from Madison corrects Rich and Max on QB depth 49:00 Keelon Brookins moving back to safety 49:45 The Badger coaching all stars 52:00 Max went to Cornell? Yet denies his FCS heritage? For shame