Belichick on use of analytics - "Less than zero"

I don't know much about football but it is a much more complex game tactically than baseball. Baseball is tactically easier to quantify because there is a 1 on 1 duel with a limited range of outcomes, while sports like football or soccer are much more chaotic.those sports have started analytics too but it isn't as clear cut as in baseball.

For example in baseball you exactly know if a hitter can't hit curveballs or pull every pitch. Those are tendencies the hitter can't really beat at least within a season (maybe he can improve that in the off season but not week  to week) and thus analytics are very useful. In football you might also have a stat but the game is more dynamic with more people involved. 

The rest of the pack needs analytics to keep up with Belichick’s genius.

Actually, there’s an article at NBC Sports Boston that says don’t believe him. Belichick doesn’t like to show his hand. The article states the Patriots operate in a manner very consistent with the analytics Belichick claims he ignores. 

Casey Stengel was famous for and credited with implementing platooning players as a strategy.  It really was nothing more than analytics - lefties hit righties etc.

The point being that regardless of sport a manager/coaches job is to accentuate player strengths and mitigate their weaknesses.  

Bill Belichick is able to find more and creative ways to do this even though he has had only one and sometimes two players that would be considered superior to their peers at their position.  He does this by creating virtually no weaknesses by having a balanced and flexible roster and by having far more discipline and making less errors than the opposition.

In a real sense about 80% of analytics is what used to be called common sense.  Looking at the world for what it is, understanding human beings and acting on that successfully.  The other 20% is in the numbers that are more encompassing that what the eye can take in.  They should validate the truth your eye sees, correct any errors and illuminate opportunities that are missed.  When used in that way the balance of human feel and utilization of fact should come into equilibrium to optimize the outcome. 

Simple.

"I don't really care what happened in 1973 and what those teams did or didn't do. I don't really think that matters in this game -- or '83 or '90, pick out whatever you want."

That is an awful interpretation and proves his genius to divert his peers from his strategy.

Articles like this make me laugh.  I'm from New England, which I only mention to say that we get plenty of coverage of Bill and the Patriots from every angle from every media outlet.  I've seen Bill speak in a business setting a handful of times.  I haven't got a clue if Bill uses analytics 100% of the time or 0% of the time.  The one thing I would say is that whether the number is 100% or 0%, there is a "less than zero" percent chance Bill would share that information with some reporter from ESPN.