Value of Things: The data driven life

I write a companion piece for The Crawfish Boxes called “In the lab. ” The bent of the articles are similar. Essentially, I am a data nerd.

Four of my five books relied heavily on complex statistics. I literally swim in data at work as well. Who the heck knows, maybe I am somewhere on the spectrum.

Maybe that explains my strange fascination with numbers. The humor of it all is that while I am good at mental math, I literally suck at Algebra and Geometry. I say all of this because the UFL is experimenting with some interesting rules changes that just might trickle their way into the NFL.

They have adopted two rules already that are bound to have a pretty profound effect on games and offer new opportunities in data. The first major change is the four point field goal. Kickers that kick a field goal beyond 60 yards will be awarded a fourth point.