ESPN The Magazine Ranked the Phillies Last among Major Sports Teams in Their Use of Analytics

I don’t know what I’m doing!

In Jim Adair’s ESPN The Magazine‘s “Analytics Issue,” on newsstands now apparently, the worldwide leader ranked the 122 teams in the big-four major sports by their use of analytics. And you probably saw this coming:

The magazine has the Philadelphia Phillies ranked 122nd out of 122 teams, the New York Knicks ranked 121st, and your Redskins ranked 120th, meaning last in the NFL.

(Of course, you can’t apply analytics to intangibles, which is why this whole enterprise is not at all fair.)

Not all that shocking for a team whose GM doesn’t understand the difference between plate appearances and at-bats.

We’ll update this post on more once I go buy 15 copies of the magazine and hand them out to strangers on the street.