Will “Kaizen” Get the Buffalo Bills to Next Year’s Super Bowl? Mark Graban Jan 28, 2021 6 Blog I'm not a Buffalo Bills fan (a.k.a. "The Bills Mafia"), but I did attend one game at what was then called Rich!-->…
NFL Scoring is Up, An All-Time High, But is it A “Signal” Worth… Mark Graban Oct 13, 2020 9 Blog I do enjoy watching football, so this headline caught my eye: "Why Are N.F.L. Scores Scores So High This!-->!-->!-->…
Respect for People as a Competitive Advantage in Major League Baseball Mark Graban Jun 24, 2020 1 Blog "Respect for people" is, of course, a core tenet of Lean and the Toyota Production System. It's an important idea!-->…
Are NFL Kickers “Regressing” in Field Goal Accuracy? Mark Graban Nov 30, 2019 4 Blog Rodger Sherman is a fellow Northwestern alumnus who I follow on Twitter, for tweets about NU football and beyond. !-->!-->…
#Throwback Thursday (and Updates): Bryce Harper, Home Runs, Attendance, and Game… Mark Graban Oct 3, 2019 2 Blog The Major League Baseball regular season has ended, so there's an opportunity to revisit some posts about!-->…
An Example of Quick PDSA Study & Adjust on ESPN’s MNF? Mark Graban Sep 11, 2019 11 Blog Last night was the first night of Monday Night Football (MNF) on ESPN. I didn't tune in until the last five!-->…
Is Tom Brady Getting Better AND Getting Worse With Age? Mark Graban Sep 6, 2019 1 Blog I was reading this NFL preview article in the Wall Street Journal (which makes as much sense as getting business!-->…
Is Bryce Harper a “Bust” This Season? Or is He Just More Consistent? Mark Graban Aug 21, 2019 7 Blog Here's a post about baseball... but it's really about statistics. Baseball has an endless supply of numbers and!-->…
A Strong Signal in the Number of Home Runs — and a Surprising Special Cause Mark Graban Jun 27, 2019 2 Blog It's been a busy few weeks for me with work travel and, blogwise, I'm winding down into a few weeks of "blog!-->!-->!-->…
A PDSA Cycle in the Early Days of Baseball Uniforms Mark Graban Jun 18, 2019 1 Blog As somebody who grew up as a big baseball fan, I somehow managed to not see the Ken Burns documentary, Baseball. !-->!-->…
Is “Kaizen” a Slogan or a Methodology for the Seattle Mariners? Mark Graban Apr 18, 2019 2 Blog Here is an interesting article that a few people pointed me toward the other day about the Seattle Mariners team: !-->!-->…
Metrics Require More Than 2-Pointers or 3-Pointers: NCAA Men’s Hoops Final… Mark Graban Apr 9, 2019 3 Blog Two data points are not a trend. But, one data point can be a "signal" that a metric has changed enough to merit!-->…
Lessons from Brett Favre on Permission and Innovation Mark Graban Jan 11, 2019 11 Blog It's a big week for American football. Monday was the College Football Playoff championship game. Alabama, led by!-->…
Don’t Overexplain College Football Playoff TV Ratings Being at “An… Mark Graban Jan 10, 2019 3 Blog We have to be careful with text descriptions of business metrics -- this is true when it's numbers in the news or!-->…
Using Process Behavior Charts to Compare Red Bead Game “Willing… Mark Graban Dec 17, 2018 0 Blog This post is Part Three of a series on using Process Behavior Charts for snapshot comparisons (of individuals,…
Is Andre Drummond Sustaining His Free Throw Improvements? Mark Graban Nov 19, 2018 3 Blog Last year, I looked at the free throw statistics of Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons. News headlines talked…
Shohei Ohtani, Norm Bodek, and The Harada Method Featured in the WSJ Mark Graban Sep 18, 2018 1 Blog You might remember my blog post from May about the Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese player for the Los Angeles Angels of…
Home Runs as Tables of Numbers, Run Charts, and Process Behavior Charts Mark Graban Sep 12, 2018 2 Blog If you're not a baseball fan, I apologize for a second baseball-themed post this week. Baseball has a lot of…