This is, quite literally, the nerdiest football software deep dive that drops every year. Perhaps only 100 people care about this post but it's the best analysis in the business of top end consumer-facing football analytics software. If you are one of the rare 100, it's worth reading. If you're not, that's OK!
2026 Update: The state of public facing NFL analytics
I’ve got a self-appointed peculiar beat, being the purveyor of “I spend money on public analytic sites so you don’t have to” to hopefully give folks a taste of what a site offers so they can decide if they want to subscribe or not (though you should still, my opinion is generally wrong).
theanalyticssay.substack.com