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Post by brophy on Jan 8, 2009 16:35:07 GMT -6
kdl.cs.umass.edu/papers/fast-jensen-aaai2006.pdfThe interactions of professional football coaches and teams in the National Football League (NFL) form a complex social network. This network provides a great opportunity to analyze the influence that coaching mentors have on their proteges. In this paper, we use this social network to identify notable coaches and characterize championship coaches. We also utilize the coaching network to learn a model of which teams will make the playoffs in a given year. Developing comprehensive models of complex adaptive networks, such as the network of NFL coaches, poses a difficult challenge for researchers. From our analysis of the NFL, we identify three types of dependencies that any model of complex network data must be able to represent.
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Post by CVBears on Jan 9, 2009 15:59:17 GMT -6
At first, I thought it was odd that after five mentors, the success of the coach decreases. But, if you think about it, it does start to make sense... if nothing else, if a coach has 14 mentors, how long was he at any given place to really learn? Also, under what circumstances did said coach bounce from team to team to have 14 mentors?
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Post by brophy on Jan 9, 2009 16:21:35 GMT -6
statistics and human relationships.....I think you have to stretch quite a bit to find concrete conclusions.
It is interesting (and a trip to look through all those names and influences).
One thing I was thinking about was how, we as coaches, many times like to look at ourselves as individuals, as islands...impervious to trends or history's hand. In the application of many of our situations, this study may provide some reflection on;
1) Why those with college/pro experience / ties would be looked upon as more qualified HC's than the converse.
2) Is there an argument to be made for spending time /developing respectful (friendly) communication with successful rivals in your area (humility) in the hopes of picking up all that you can (rubbing the success geni lamp).
3) An even more legitimate excuse to make yourself (and staff) visit other colleges / programs to learn, rub shoulders, and network with other coaches.
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