My first truly focused on analytics article, and it wasn't the piece I was expecting to write before the season started. It was the first article in my weekly analytics article series I will doing across the season on something I have picked up over the past week or two of games.
For the article, I wanted to establish prior beliefs and general perception and value of the player. To do this, I collected publicly available data to look at his contract and talked that means in theory and practice.
While in the future I would love to create some of these graphs myself from scratch, RBSDM.com is an excellent source of graph creation where I could outsource the data that I wanted to help use data to support my argument.
I, also, wanted to use multiple sources of data collection and styles because there are faults in them all. I could have gone on for numerous different metrics, but I decided to limit myself to just three to ensure that it was still a good read while explaining why the metric shows he is an underrated QB.
For my next focus of the article, I wanted to focus on usage which was the primary reason for the piece, I had explained his value and how good he was and it was time to put it all together by having shown how good of a player he is then his usage. His usage is awful, and everyone knows that so I wanted to leave that to the end as starting by showing how good he was and then seeing the usage is a much bigger shock and impact on the reader compared to saying usage and how good he is from that.
I'm going to track Kirk Cousins' season with during the 2020/2021 offseason review the evidence and see if there has been any progress (either good or bad).
If you would like to read the article, the link is: https://www.bluechipscouting.com/articles/zr/analytics/letkirkcook