Sports Metric of the Week: Massive Jump in PGA Tour Driving Distance

Bubba Watson, one of golf’s longest hitters, took home the Northern Trust Open trophy this weekend at Riviera Country Club. Watson’s length off the tee is a huge advantage, allowing him to reach all par-5’s in two shots and hit wedges into the majority of par-4s. So far on tour this year, Bubba is averaging 309.5 yards in driving distance, …

Sports Metric of the Week: Defense at a Premium in 2016 NBA All-Star Game

The NBA All-Star game is known for highlight reel dunks and a plethora of three-point makes by the league’s best players. While the exhibition almost always lacks enthusiasm on the defensive side of the floor, this year’s display of defense was particularly absent. The West All-Star’s 196 points bested the previous team-high record by 33 points, and total points scored …

Sports Metric of the Week: Broncos Defense Carries Team to Championship

It looks as though Peyton Manning’s final game will be a Super Bowl victory. The legendary quarterback’s future is in question, and many close to the star believe he will hang up the cleats following his second Super Bowl ring. Despite Manning getting credit for leading his team to victory over the Panthers, it was actually the Broncos defense that …

Sports Metric of the Week: Which NCAA Men’s Basketball Program Reigns Supreme?

Men’s college basketball has flown under the radar to start 2016, being overshadowed by the NFL playoffs and the growing popularity of the NBA. This year, certain traditional powers such as Duke and Kentucky have struggled, just barely hanging on to spots in the Top 25 rankings. On the other hand, Kansas and North Carolina are top five teams with …

Where Is Your Business’ Most Important Data Hidden?

Let me ask you a question: if your business receives X leads per day on average, and leads suddenly dropped 40%, how quickly would you know about it? Immediately? Within 24 hours? Within a week? Clearly, the sooner you knew about the issue, the better…so you can help resolve it. Now what makes this issue so much more complex and …

Sports Metric of the Week: Measuring the Success of the NFL’s Two Conferences

Super Bowl 50 will match the Carolina Panthers against the Denver Broncos in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 7th. Both the Panthers and Broncos flourished during the regular season and each earned the number one seed in their respective conferences. Despite the Broncos knocking off the reigning Super Bowl champions this past weekend, it is the Panthers that …

Sports Metric of the Week: Manning vs. Brady

On Sunday, the Denver Broncos will play the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship for the right to play in the Super Bowl. The match-up will feature Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, arguably two of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history and undoubtedly the two best of this generation. Despite Manning’s five Most Valuable Player awards throughout his career, …

6 Benefits to Building Your Dashboard Today

The right dashboard can revolutionize both your success and enjoyment in running your business. Most specifically, the right dashboard will give you six key benefits as follows: 1. Total Visibility into Your Business With your dashboard, you will know exactly what’s going on in your business at all times. You know what’s working and what’s not working. For instance, your …

3 Ways to Methodically Improve Performance on Your Key Metrics

The first step to improving performance is to maintain your key performance indicators (KPIs) and business metrics in a dashboard, since the old adage, “you can’t improve what you can’t measure” is quite true. Once you have your dashboard established, do the following: 1. Split Test Split testing is experimenting with new variations. You can conduct tests with two variables …