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I'll take two years they won the Super Bowl (2016, 2018) and some simple stats to highlight why "defensive DVOA" and these analytics are garbage.
In 2018 the Patriots defense was 7th best in points allowed (per drive) and 7th in total points allowed... any stat that ranks them 19th is crap. They were 8th in offensive points scored per drive... the D also held the Rams to a historically low Super Bowl score of three points.
In 2016 the Patriots defense was 2nd best in points allowed (per drive) and 1st in total points allowed... any stat that ranks them 16th is total horse s**t.
Bill's opinion on analytics...
Belichick, during his weekly Friday press conference, was asked how big of a role analytics plays into the Patriots' day-to-day operations. "Less than zero," Belichick said, via ProFootballTalk.com. "Analytics is not really my thing."Belichick essentially said the same thing in 2016 when asked about analytics. "You could take those advanced websites and metric them wherever you want," Belichick said less than three months before winning his fifth Super Bowl, an overtime win over Atlanta in Super Bowl LI. "I don't know. I have no idea. I've never looked at one. I don't even care to look at one. I don't care what they say ... All the metric pages and all of that, I mean I have no idea. You'd need to ask that to a smarter coach than me."
Stop letting PFF or whomever tell you what is good, go by records and point differential instead. They judge win/loss based off points, not analytics.
Bill Belichick says he puts 'less than zero stock' into analytics during Patriots' presser
Belichick's way of building championship teams has nothing to do with sciencewww.cbssports.com
Regarding Belichick & analytics, I think he is simply lying. Dude has a degree in economics and runs his team like one. If you know Ernie Adams relationship with Bill Belichick, you know he values analytics perhaps more than any other HC
“The analytics and different ways of trying to improve and construct a team are important. We're all here really to do one thing, whatever our role or job is, whatever team or organization we work for, and that's to try to find ways to improve. Find a better way to approach our team or business. To look at different strategies and pick the best one, and ultimately try to motivate and instruct the people we work with to perform to a higher level, including ourselves. ... I certainly respect the mathematical and statistical ways of looking at the game, and trying to use those methods and those results to improve our product on the field."