Pro Football Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Pro Football Season (Pro Football Prospectus)
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Editor: Aaron SchatzEdition: Paperback
Published: 2008-07-09
ISBN: 0452289734
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Plume
Book Reviews of Pro Football Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Pro Football Season (Pro Football Prospectus)
Book Review: Has it flaws, but still good.
Summary: 4 Stars
Football Outsiders/Pro Football Prospectus is the best thing going as far as public football analysis.
This edition needed a more thorough editing job. It abounds with typos, transposed numbers and missing negative signs.
Additionally, the authors make a fair ammount of errors. Correlation and causation are confused, conclusions are drawn from questionable sample sizes, context and interrelatedness of statistics aren't considered strongly enough. In the text-heavy portions, it seems that the FO team tries to "force" analysis and discussion instead of approaching their subject with the detachment of scientists.
That said, at times the analysis is superlative and there is great data in here from the charting of NFL games from the last few seasons.
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