Analysing the NFL

September 20, 2006 9:31 AM

What are some websites/sources that give weekly analysis of the upcoming weekend's NFL games?

Sites that aren't the typical weekend talking heads, but more on the geek side?

posted by Heatwole to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (6 answers total)

Probably the best website for something like that is Football Outsiders. They do a lot of very interestingstats work analysising games and teams.
posted by skynxnex at 9:33 AM on September 20, 2006 [1 favorite]

Though his column is more review than preview, Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column is always interesteing and written from a somewhat different perspective.
posted by Gimpson at 10:32 AM on September 20, 2006

The Football Project -- which used to work but appears to have gone offline for the moment -- offers statistical analyses and data from pretty much every game ever played.

Pro Football Talk is a little more "talking head," but nonetheless offers a good take on the game and has tons of inside information that you might not see on other sites. He also compiles links from hundreds of newspapers, so it's a quick and easy way to catch up on lots of football news at once.
posted by dseaton at 11:42 AM on September 20, 2006

I like the USA Today's Thursday Sports section. Always have.
posted by allkindsoftime at 12:00 PM on September 20, 2006

CoversExperts, (For entertainment purposes only, of course).

You can always joins some of us over at SportsFilter where we have some pretty good columnists of our own.
posted by geekyguy at 1:45 PM on September 20, 2006

One more site that I forgot to mention -- but was just looking at when I remembered this post -- is footballcommentary.com. It has a number of articles with some detailed mathematical analysis and models of various strategies and such.
posted by dseaton at 7:47 AM on October 4, 2006