Innovative NFL Stats and Analysis Website Football Outsiders Celebrates its First Anniversary - Website Seeks to Adapt Principles of Sabermetrics to Bring Football Commentary into the Moneyball Era

Framingham, MA via SEO-PR) July 30, 2004 - Football outside, the top site for fans of intelligent and innovative NFL stats, today celebrates its first anniversary. In one year the website has grown from a handful of supporters of a thriving community of readers and writers who seek professional football to the concepts of sabermetrics that have become famous in baseball Moneyball.In is due to book their first year of existence , Football abroad has been covered or had their authors cited in publications like The Economist, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Street & Smith's Pro Football 2004. The Internet news sources who have discussed the site include ESPN.com, SI.com, Salon.com and Slate.com. Of foreign football has also produced custom analysis on topics such as running shorts, and penalties for the playoffs from NFL.com. The audience outside football has grown from only 1,800 unique visitors in August 2003 more than 31,000 unique users in December 2003, the last month of the regular season.Football Outsiders was praised by NFL coaches and sports alike. Gregg Easterbrook of NFL.com, said: "Football outsiders is the best place in the independent football website. According to King Kaufman of Salon.com," Pro football, in all its fluid complexity, has been crying since years ago to the kind of sophisticated statistical analysis was offered by baseball. The outdoor soccer is the best answer to that cry so far and continues to improve. "NFL coaches have also learned to appreciate the analysis Cup outsiders. The website has worked with Jim Schwartz, defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans, who calls him" the most accurate view on the Web, because teams actually winning and losing. "Mike Eayrs, research director of the Green Bay Packers, says that" our job is much more scientific than most articles and I like how they worked to build the framework for action. "Creator and chief editor of Outside football, Aaron Schatz, who until February was the author of the leading daily online column on cultural trends, the Lycos 50. Schatz writes regularly on issues relating to sport and culture / politics New Republic online. The four journalists regularly to outsiders Football - Schatz, Michael David Smith, Russell Levine, and Al Bogdan - also contributed to the forthcoming book Brassey Pro Football Forecast 2004.'s staff extends outside football markets for the NFL, based in Boston, Providence, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta and New York.Besides regular four columns, Football Outsiders features include: A daily weblog of the most important news of football all of the weekly updates sabermetric style of our statistics in the NFL, regular analysis of conventional football wisdom and proclamations of the athletes to check whether you agree with the actual historical data, columns score numerous articles on topics ranging from breakdowns of specific strategies field sales statistics inconsistent from year to year, an active community of enthusiasts on the thread of discussion dedicated to each article, and the only comic strip artist Jason Beattie.Upcoming Draw Play functionality the 2004 season are projected goal of the season Winners and losers under four years of statistics and trends in the NFL, the improvement of statistics of special equipment to take into account factors such as climate and altitude, the presentation of innovative statistical season since before that the site launched, and a public competition based on our unique touch to the fantasy football league Loser, challenging fans to choose Outsiders players.Football worst performance in the league has been designed and developed by B: creative complex in Atlanta, GA, built for the future.