I loved the Moneyball revolution in baseball. I am skeptical that football can be analyzed in a similar way, since skills, tasks, and end results are so much more complex. There a very few "schemes" in baseball. There's a batter and a pitcher, and these one-on-one confrontations can be broken down, analyzed, and graded. Even on defense, it's very much an individual game where one player is tasked with making a play on the ball. Some guys like Morley from the Rockets have done a pretty good job in bringing analytics to basketball as well, but we are still talking about a largely one-on-one game with 10 players on the court, a relatively simple strategy, and not 22 players on a much bigger field with much more complicated strategies, players with much bigger variations in their athleticism.
Even though I think this is going to fail in a epic way, as a fan, I'm somewhat excited to see it in action, and I'd love to see someone chronicle the advanced methods and techniques that get employed.
