BOSTON, Mass. — This past weekend, I attended the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at the Hynes Convention Center with a handful of students from the University of Georgia along with 2,200 other sports geeks. One of the initial takeaways from the conference really didn’t have anything to do with analytics. But rather the growth [...]

BOSTON, Mass.—The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference went into in-depth discussions during multiple panels about professional sports and their use or misuse of analytics, but two conference attendee’s created a website aimed at objectively analyzing college football head coaches, offensive coordinators and defensive coordinators. Stephen and Scott Prather co-founded the site CoachesByTheNumbers.com. The goal of [...]