A mathematical look at the 2018 Minnesota Vikings

This was my attitude the last time I was in a math class.It’s been a long time since yours truly has taken a math class. Like, a looooooooooooong time. My last math class was so long ago that I had one of those Texas Instruments graphing calculators and thought the things that it could do were amazing.

Shut up, I know I’m not the only one.

But in the links to stories relating to the Minnesota Vikings that I get from Google every day, buried in there was this story from a man named William Butler. Butler took all of the play-by-play data from this past Vikings season and attempted to use the data in conjunction with “machine learning” techniques to see if he could figure out exactly where the…