Hello! For those of you who are already familiar with either my articles on or my Scientific Football books, it’s great to talk to you again! For those of you who are new to the discussion, let me take a moment to tell you a little something about what I do and how it is that I started doing it. The best way to describe my work is to call it analytical football studies. I started doing this type of analysis in 1984 after I read that season’s edition of The Bill James Baseball Abstract. James’s unique way of viewing baseball caused me to want to try.