Maybe Your Best Offensive Coordinator is a Girl
Football lessons from a world champion gambler by Jay Stolfi Your best offensive coordinator is a girl. More correctly, your best play‐calling analyzer is a girl. She is Annie Duke, author of the book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts If you’ve ever been the play-caller in a football game, you know that making smart decisions without all the facts is the essence of the job. Duke is a Columbia University graduate and pursued a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Despite the Ivy League education, she is most known for her poker playing abilities. Duke accumulated over $4 million of tournament poker winnings including several World Series of Poker championships. Life, she explains, is a lot like poker. As I see it, so is football In Thinking in Bets, Duke makes the case that the thought process that leads to success in poker is the same thought process that leads to success in business, relationships and other important life situations. In poker, she says, you have to make critical decisions with very limited information…and you have to make them in real‐time. She goes on to give about 250 pages of detailed explanations, scientific data and tells plenty of amusing anecdotes regarding how the mind works and how to correctly analyze the outcomes of your decisions. All of the chapters have relevance to a football coach, particularly regarding offensive play calling, but I will focus on just a few key topics here. John Von Neumann, the noted mathematician, physicist (and poker player) is considered the father of “game theory”. His game theory revolutionized the fields of mathematics and economics. It is the study of how mathematical models can be used to understand seemingly unrelated things such as the likely interactions between opponents, how to account for hidden information, and how to account for the role of chance in the process of decision making. When asked by a colleague if he meant “the theories of games…like chess?”, Von Neumann said “No, no…Chess is not a ‘game’. Chess is a well‐defined form of computation. You may not be able to work out all the answers, but in theory there must be a solution, a right procedure in any position.” Real games, he explained, “are not like that. Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do. And that is what games are about in my theory.” Dukes recognizes that “The decisions we make in our lives‐ in business, saving and spending, health and lifestyle choices, raising our children, and relationships‐ easily fit Von Neumann’s definition of ‘real games’’’. The seeming randomness we face in our daily lives requires a specific kind of analysis …
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