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Advanced Stats Glossary: 13 terms to know for football season

Welcome to football season, friends. On Saturday, we get live college football games on the tube highlighted by a Big Ten showdown between Nebraska and Northwestern in Ireland. The best sport in the world is officially back.

Over the next three months, we will be diving into the weeds with Kentucky football. Whether its analyzing personnel, reporting news, or doing deep dives on opponents. Through it all, there are some keywords that some folks might not be familiar with.

As the resident leader of KSR’s football analytics department, I have had a few folks ask me what “success rate” means and if I could define some of the terms than be found in my writing or on the 11 Personnel podcast.