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Mike Reid later in life on his time at Penn State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNzDXbi4fLI

And here's a taste of his music. Pretty moving stuff. Won Grammy Awards too. So makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNpPxWRD2JI

As some of you I've parsed most of the Gamebooks into a digital form for event data to try to get a better understanding of defensive contributions for prior eras, especially 1978 PBP data. And tinkering with individual weights + team weights for contribution distributions. Ran through a number of s...

Yes. I don't want to give away what I'm doing, but it's adding context to it as to your point, 125 tackles, 150 tackles, 75 tackles... what matters is the context. I think I have a few proxies to evaluate it from almost a pure stats point of view. But then adding a 2nd comb over of context, defensiv...

I've went through our Gamebooks, which were helpful, but still missing a lot of data on the defensive side. I have seen several media guides from even as early as 1969 (Dolphins, Bears, and Colts) that have tracked individual defensive stats, e.g. tackles, tfl, sacks, ff, qb hurries and state "...

Great question. The 1986 Vikings were 4th in offense, 5th in defense. The 1988 Vikings were 4th in offense, 2nd in defense. The Vikings 1987 beat the 10-2 Saints (10.1+ SRS) and the 10-2 49ers (13.3+ SRS) as an 8-4 team. [non-scrubs games only] Those were the two best teams in the NFL and they beat...

Great question. The 1986 Vikings were 4th in offense, 5th in defense. The 1988 Vikings were 4th in offense, 2nd in defense. The Vikings 1987 beat the 10-2 Saints (10.1+ SRS) and the 10-2 49ers (13.3+ SRS) as an 8-4 team. [non-scrubs games only] Those were the two best teams in the NFL and they beat ...

Note: this is 9 gamebooks but 2 of them were "SS" (short summary) only, ergo, it's really only stats for 7 games. If wondering about how I phrased it.

An example I'd like to do is something along the lines like this. This is taken from the 1971 Minnesota Vikings Gamebooks as I wrote some parsers that went through the gamebooks. I can duplicate this across teams pretty well with the models I've trained and using an online service for the compute ($...

I'm looking to find Minnesota Vikings defensive stats, particularly tackle data from 1967 (Alan Page's rookie year) through 1978. Does anyone know where one could find that or if they've seen it or have some of it? I have noticed that in 1977 the Vikings began putting individual defensive stats insi...