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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 924317" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>What statistics are out there for coaches that you can use to play “moneyball”? We already know how to do it. It rhymes with nipple auction (triple option for those who can’t put it together.) Money ball works in baseball because the season is so long, the numbers and averages are going to level out pretty reliably. It’s basically impossible to apply that level of detail to a 12 game season. Especially when you’re looking to do it with the coaches, not the players themselves. Moneyball isn’t fool proof, either. It works when you get it right, (Tampa Bay Rays), but when you get it wrong, you look like the 2022 Oakland A’s who finished 60-102. Development and culture are still large aspects of what makes moneyball work. It’s not just picking numbers out of a pile. </p><p></p><p>If you wanted to build a staff based completely on “moneyball,” you’d start with hiring a head coach who has played for and won championships at a lower level, G5, FCS, D2, even down to NAIA. Then you’d look at the top coordinators, or other head coaches from lower levels who call their own plays on one side of the ball and hire them to be your coordinators. Fill in position coaches with more top coordinators from lower levels, maybe even taking some of the best high school coaches to fill positional roles. You really think you’d be able to sell a staff like that to a fanbase? To recruits? To your existing players? It could work, and it could work great, but that’s taking a huge risk of embarrassing your program if it doesn’t work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 924317, member: 4572"] What statistics are out there for coaches that you can use to play “moneyball”? We already know how to do it. It rhymes with nipple auction (triple option for those who can’t put it together.) Money ball works in baseball because the season is so long, the numbers and averages are going to level out pretty reliably. It’s basically impossible to apply that level of detail to a 12 game season. Especially when you’re looking to do it with the coaches, not the players themselves. Moneyball isn’t fool proof, either. It works when you get it right, (Tampa Bay Rays), but when you get it wrong, you look like the 2022 Oakland A’s who finished 60-102. Development and culture are still large aspects of what makes moneyball work. It’s not just picking numbers out of a pile. If you wanted to build a staff based completely on “moneyball,” you’d start with hiring a head coach who has played for and won championships at a lower level, G5, FCS, D2, even down to NAIA. Then you’d look at the top coordinators, or other head coaches from lower levels who call their own plays on one side of the ball and hire them to be your coordinators. Fill in position coaches with more top coordinators from lower levels, maybe even taking some of the best high school coaches to fill positional roles. You really think you’d be able to sell a staff like that to a fanbase? To recruits? To your existing players? It could work, and it could work great, but that’s taking a huge risk of embarrassing your program if it doesn’t work. [/QUOTE]
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