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I never understood the fear of fans wrongly criticizing teams/players/coaches based on the All-22 tape. All other sports make their own equivalent of it availab

I never understood the fear of fans wrongly criticizing teams/players/coaches based on the All-22 tape. All other sports make their own equivalent of it available allowing fans to see every mistake made by every player. As far as I know it hasn't resulted in any worse sportsmanship. Football in particular has always had Monday morning quarterbacks and always will. The media has always had access to the All-22 tape and do break down the best and worst plays every week. I'm glad they're finally opening this up but does anyone know what they were so scared of before? This does open up a huge opportunity for third party analysis, most obviously for sports betting and fantasy football tips. With a much smaller sample size of games and plays football will never become as predictable as baseball but it will be exciting to see what the general public will do with this. Also for any high school defensive backs who previously had no way to study how the pros play their position, this is huge!

dhugiaskmak 14y ago
All other sports make their own equivalent of it available allowing fans to see every mistake made by every player. What other sports do that?
- Lukeas14 14y ago
  MLB.tv and TNT Overtime(NBA) both allow you to watch games online with your own choice of camera angles. The MLS seems to be lacking this option.
  - GFischer 14y ago
    I didn't know that, I'm not into american football or baseball, but I like the NBA a lot. TNT Overtime is probably not available in my country (Uruguay), and most live streams are still mostly unwatchable here, but I'd really like to have the option some day :) . I really like living in the age when cable tv is being replaced by Netflix and equivalent internet broadcasts :) . Sadly my hope that I could enjoy the same stuff being broadcast in the US, Europe and Japan still hasn't come to pass (they've managed to region-encode the Internet :P and proxies are not a long-term answer)

dhugiaskmak 14y ago

All other sports make their own equivalent of it available allowing fans to see every mistake made by every player. What other sports do that?

Lukeas14 14y ago
MLB.tv and TNT Overtime(NBA) both allow you to watch games online with your own choice of camera angles. The MLS seems to be lacking this option.
- GFischer 14y ago
  I didn't know that, I'm not into american football or baseball, but I like the NBA a lot. TNT Overtime is probably not available in my country (Uruguay), and most live streams are still mostly unwatchable here, but I'd really like to have the option some day :) . I really like living in the age when cable tv is being replaced by Netflix and equivalent internet broadcasts :) . Sadly my hope that I could enjoy the same stuff being broadcast in the US, Europe and Japan still hasn't come to pass (they've managed to region-encode the Internet :P and proxies are not a long-term answer)