Using analytics to predict every game on the Cowboys schedule: Weeks 1-2

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty ImagesRight now, we’re all in the midst of preseason football, where there are technically games on TV but it’s not quite real football just yet. Preseason games don’t really tell us too much about teams anyway, since it’s more for coaches to evaluate their players.

But analytics can offer valuable insight into what a team was, is, and will likely be in the near future. So with that in mind, it could be fun to use analytics to predict each game on the Cowboys’ schedule in 2021 and see how close the predictions end up being.

For the Cowboys, the analytics won’t really tell you anything new about last year. When Dak was on the field, Dallas ranked fifth in the NFL…