Using weekly Year over Year Performance I’ve spent the past few weeks looking at teams year over year performance by week, and identified those that Start Strong, Start Slow and Finish Strong. In the final installment of reviewing teams YoY performance, I review the teams that finish poorly down the stretch. I used the same…
Using weekly Year over Year Performance The last few weeks I wrote about teams that start strong and those that start slow. But as we all know, it’s not necessarily how you start, but how you finish that matters the most. With that in mind, I’ll spend the next couple weeks looking at teams that…
Using weekly Year over Year Performance Last week I wrote about the NFL teams that get off to a fast start on a regular basis. This week I completed a similar exercise, but this time looking for teams that get off to a slow start. These are good teams to fade at the start of…
Using weekly Year over Year Performance Each NFL week 1 season holds surprises that few people can predict, but there are a few teams that you can rely on early in each season. These are the fast start teams, and they usually have good coaching that know what it takes to win in the NFL….
Each year there are a number of teams that decide to go in a different direction than the current head coach. There are multiple reasons why this happens, but the biggest is recency bias. What have you done for me lately is a common question in the NFL. It is a league that is all…
Determined using odds movement The 2023 NFL schedule was released on May 10, and even though we know which teams are playing which before hand, the order and location each are played has an impact on a teams expectations. This can be reflected in the futures market for win totals, and of course odds to…
Using odds movement to evaluate performance There are many ways to evaluate a teams performance in the draft. You can see if they filled needs, but of course you have to determine what the teams needs were in the first place. In order to do that properly, you need to be an expert at team…
Breakdown of the top 5 NFL coaches for the 2023 season
The 2022 pro football preseason magazine was originally released on dustinbets.wordpress.com. You can preview/download a copy below, or preview and download from the 2022 preseason magazine page. In this edition, the team pages were expanded from 1 page to 5 pages per team. It contained the same amount of commentary as the 2021 version, but…
The 2021 pro football preseason magazine was originally released on dustinbets.wordpress.com. You can preview/download a copy below, or preview and download from the 2021 preseason magazine page. As you will see, the first edition is quite rudimentary and basic. This was produced simply using Microsoft products of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.