The Blog with No Name

Anticipation has a habit to set you up

Blog with No Name (working title) is a blog about how sport is the most important of the least important things, actually.

Sporting decision makers made better decisions after they got serious about learning from analytical models of their games, models that often began life as blogosphere passion projects. In this front office, we believe that can happen again, one level up: sports themselves as the model for decision makers trying to improve the outcomes that matter most.

We can have all sorts of fun learning from its rigour and its ridiculous randomness. Its competitions and complex collaborations. Its politics and power structures. Its regulations and unwritten rules. Its incentives and ingenious-to-idiotic strategies.

Come for a swift half or two in the clubhouse, stay after hours for spinning yarns about how, if you look at them right, sports really are a matter of life and death. And the dancing.

Between now and opening day, while the anticipation sets us up, don’t forget, you can never beat the bandit.