Person: Rob Carroll

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GAA Podcast: Using the shutdown — Dr Ed Coughlan on the benefits of practice when you can't train

Dr Ed Coughlan discusses how athletes and coaches can use the unprecedented shutdown on collective training to reset and reeducate and come back better.

Dublin v Monaghan - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final

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Research flags modern explosion in hand-passing

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Mike Quirke: We’ve turned refs into traffic cops without the speed guns

Deception is name of the game in inter-county football

Things you have come to expect from Jim Gavin...

No quick fix for football’s woes

Hooter to ensure ball kept in play longer

The one advance in GAA we’re looking forward to seeing most in 2015? The public clock/hooter in the All-Ireland football and hurling championships.

Tue, 23 Dec, 2014

Spoofology or sound science...the differences are in the numbers

We’ve been dealing here in recent weeks with the raison d’etre of statistical analysis in the GAA – taking a leaf from the book The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally, as well as checking in with Rob Carroll of gaelicstats.com.

Mon, 24 Jun, 2013

Applying common sense to wide count

Inspired by Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, Rob Carroll has taken to crunching the numbers in GAA — but discovered one manager’s fish is another’s foul when it comes to stats.

Mon, 17 Jun, 2013

Revenge of the Nerds

Perhaps Moneyball and Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s are to blame, but pro sport’s fascination with statistics is underlined by the franchises taking notes at a special stat conference in Boston

Sat, 20 Apr, 2013

Carroll’s work is much acclaimed

Rob Carroll’s love of gaelic games and statistics led him to create gaelicstats.com.

Sat, 29 Sep, 2012