Mike Band

Very exciting times especially if your imagination and creativity supersedes technical ability. My recommendations from a perspective of one: • Have a separate chat window that helps you build out the initial prompt • Context (and steering) prompts work best in Markdown format • Nano Banana Pro (not the free version + Pro) is incredible at visualizations (drawing free hand and uploading a screenshot is the ultimate customization hack)

Claude created a strategy deck in 15 minutes that would have taken me a week to complete and it was 90% of final draft. Took me 20-30 minutes to write the prompt for all the context necessary. Took another 2 hours to edit the deck. If I can figure out how to include visuals… 🤯

Training AI agents is like training the worst new hire. They have no context or understanding of what you’re asking so you have to give a TON of context and specific direction at first. But they learn fast and get better quickly.

@reinhardNFL Thanks, Anthony! You were an incredible sounding board throughout the build. Coming from one of my favorite data viz follows, this means a lot. Appreciate it.

One of the best offseason tools I’ve seen. Great work by @MBandNFL & his team!

@Shauncore @NFL_DougFarrar Definitely. Most draft features will be included by the start of April, including some of the visualization tools from last year’s experience.

@MBandNFL @NFL_DougFarrar Great as always. Last year the draft side had the current class plus the historical NGS stuff. Is that coming back in the next phase? Was nice to compare prospects

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@Matt_Fra_ @NextGenStats @awscloud Really appreciate it, Matt 🤝 I am big fan of constructive feedback more than anything… No worries at all!

@MBandNFL @NextGenStats @awscloud Appreciate you @MBandNFL. It should be noted that I really love the tool and could've led with a compliment instead of a critique. Keep building! 🤝

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@Matt_Fra_ @NextGenStats @awscloud Out of 1,000+ mock drafts, there are a non-zero number of mocks that have the Packers trading back into the first round. Still a valid note and will look into hiding first-round rows when the team doesn’t have a first-round pick.

@NextGenStats @awscloud Green Bay doesn't have a Round 1 pick so why does it show the % options for Round 1 selections?

@TexansCap Thanks, Troy!

@MBandNFL Congrats Mike, looks great

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@NFL_DougFarrar Coach had Jeff “Imamura” as an assistant coach for his entire tenure in Minnesota. Nick “Emmanwori” has been there for less than a year. Simple Freudian slip, Coach knows his guys. His mentorship and experience has almost certainly been invaluable for Macdonald and staff.

sit back and enjoy seahawks assistant head coach Leslie Frazier on modern coverage concepts, and when everything started to change

It's all about the prompt. For my first Substack post, I had an LLM predict the Super Bowl, but only after I forced it to think like an NFL pro scout. 🔗 landeranalytics.substack.com/p/an-llm-predi…

@jakegrossman0 Beli-style is the name I needed, thanks. Let’s talk NFL Draft prospects next.

@MBandNFL Thank you! The hot-or-not style build (although I would've called it Beli-style) is also something I considered but I wanted to stay faithful to the original vision laid out by Bryan and Seth. I am going to add team meters to the platform soon to crowdsource power rankings too.

Took inspiration from Seth and vibe coded a version of this for all QBs. Check it out! qbmeter.com

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Good read on culture & team language nytimes.com/athletic/70068…

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@dpbrugler Strongly recommend making a good impression with the Chargers @keithabneyjr. Nothing like a good blade on the boardwalk by the beach.

One of my favorite random draft nuggets: CB Keith Abney (talented day 2 prospect) was an inline skating prodigy as a kid. Won 4 national titles. Destroyed the 300-meter national record in 7th grade 👇

@jtatkins @ReichelRadio Sportsline was the OG online platform. It was newspaper box score math and phone calls until the late 90s. Yahoo became popular not long after. As a 7 y/o and co-owner of a team with my uncle Gary, these facts are purely subjective but probably true.

@MBandNFL @ReichelRadio Yahoo was the godfather.

My friend just texted me an unbelievable fantasy football dilemma. THERE IS A TIE IN THE SEMIFINALS! Kittle got injured at 186.04 to 186.04 and never returned. Nobody knows what to do. Pure fantasy football chaos. What should happen? What should the league do?

@ProFootballTalk Very proud to see so many replies bring up Survivorship bias. Mike, if the Rams won the game, we wouldn’t have posted the chart. Highly recommend: a.co/d/jbtGRj7

These low-percentage outcomes seem to happen far more often than the low-percentage numbers would suggest.