It’s very interesting to see what books Smart Football readers purchase. I get very minor referral revenues from Amazon purchases and, as a result, I am able to track which books readers purchase. The data is totally anonymous but it provides, in aggregate, some useful data.
The 20 Most Popular Books Bought by Smart Football Readers in 2011
Below is the broken out list. I thought it was quite interesting and I am curious if anyone thinks any particular trends emerge; there are definitely a few surprises in there. Note that I only included the top 20 books in the chart above; it would’ve been too tedious to create an “Other” category.
- Concept Passing: Teaching the Modern Passing Game, by Dan Gonzalez.
- Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life, by Mike Leach and Bruce Feldman.
- The Bunch Attack: Using Compressed Formations in the Passing Game, by Dan Robinson and Andrew Coverdale.
- The Hurry-Up, No-Huddle: An Offensive Philosophy, by Gus Malzahn.
- Arnsparger’s Coaching Defensive Football, by Bill Arnsparger.
- Blood, Sweat & Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today’s Game, by Tim Layden.
- Coaching the Under Front Defense, by Jerry Gordon.
- 2011 Offensive Line Coaches Handbook: Featuring Lectures From the 2011 C.O.O.L. Clinic, edited by Mitch Browning.
- Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric, by Ward Farnsworth.
- 2011 Coach of the Year Clinics Football Manual, edited by Earl Browning.
- Developing an Offensive Game Plan, by Brian Billick.
- Attacking Coverages With the Passing Game, by Steve Axman.
- Football Scouting Methods, by Steve Belichick.
- Football’s Eagle and Stack Defenses, by Ron Vanderlinden.
- Finding the Winning Edge, by Bill Walsh, Brian Billick and James Peterson.
- From Headset To Helmet – Coaching the R4 Expert System (Accelerating Quarterback Decision-Making under pressure), by Dub Maddox and Darin Slack.
- The Complete Handbook of Clock Management, by Homer Smith.
- The Hidden Game of Football, by by Bob Carroll, Pete Palmer, John Thorn and David Pietrusza.
- Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance, by Perry Mehrling.
- Coaching the Multiple West Coast Offense, by Ron Jenkins.