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Yes, this is accurate. The coaches and stats guys do this before the games and they all know what they want to run in given situations and what they believe the other team will do. It's just written down on paper.

Trust me, NFL teams have stats and programmers on board.

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Yes, they have stats and applications to apply some of the variables prior to the game. Even at the Division 3 level we had binders with probabilities based on formations. This was a fun brainstorm to see how far the technology could be applied.

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