New Rules for Decision-Making and Analytics in Football

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00:03 >> The new rules for overtime,

00:04 what goes into the decision to take a ball first there?

00:07 >> It's just something we talked about with, none of us have a ton of experience

00:10 of it, but we went through all the analytics and talked to those guys and

00:13 we decided to be better, we wanted the ball third.

00:16 If both teams matched and scored, we wanted to be the ones who had the chance

00:19 to go in and we got that field goal, so we knew we had to hold them to at least

00:23 a field goal and if we did, then we felt it was in our hands after that.

00:28 >> Wrong.

00:30 >> Wrong.

00:31 >> That's what happens when you leave it up to the guy that runs the math

00:35 division at MIT.

00:37 I think you have to make football decisions.

00:41 Bottom line is this, is that you didn't.

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