I know you have heard it. "DERRICK HENRY MATTERS!!!!" "Turns out some Running Backs DO matter, nerds!"
As the Tennessee Titans shut down the juggernaut Baltimore Ravens with an emphatic victory in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs (after thoroughly dunking on the New England Patriots by scoring 14 points on offense), the anti-data crowd has reached a fever pitch of confidence that they were right all along and that the analytics community never know what they were talking about. However, as always, the data (and what it shows) does not change as a result of one or two games.