Hall of Football = All of Football
Hall of Football is the ONLY football service that rates and tracks the best of the best, from the cradle to Canton. We rate the next two prep recruiting classes, prospects for the next draft, and track all ~14,000 active CFB players during their college career. We have been doing that for more than 30 years for teams, leagues and agents.
We also have a dramatic new addition: rating pro players by position throughout the season. We began this when creating the underlying rating system for EA’s Madden Football, which is now used by virtually every sports gaming platform.
History
Hall of Football (HallofFootball.substack.com) is the latest and greatest in the evolution of NFL Draft Scout (NDS), founded in 1987 and enhanced in 1997 when it partnered with Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh. In the 1990s, Brian “Hitman” Hitterman built our massive database, and soon after, NDS intel and ratings became a ubiquitous internet source for draft information for pro teams, leagues, and virtually every major media and broadcasting company, including NFL.com, CBS Sports, USA Today, Sports Weekly, FOX Sports.
**FOR YOU**
Hall of Football and NFL Draft Scout is making this broad, deep intel available to the public for the first time. Paid subscribers receive insights on top players. Total Access subscribers receive analysis on all ~14,000 active college players … and more year-round.
Background
Founder and publisher Frank Cooney covered football at every level since 1965, when he began a 30-year career as an award-winning sportswriter for Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner.
In the 1970s, he created a rating system for pro football called Grid Grade, which predicted teams and results of Super Bowl XIV (Steelers vs. Rams), and others. In the mid-’70s, he was GM of a semi-pro team in two consecutive American Football Association (AFA) championship games. In 2007, he was inducted into the AFA Hall of Fame.
In the 1980s, Cooney teamed with Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins to create the underlying rating system for Madden Football. In 1994, Cooney was on the launch team for the innovative NFL on FOX, which won four consecutive Emmys. Cooney has been on the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee since 1990 and is on the Senior Blue Ribbon Selection subcommittee.
Industry DNA
The Sports Xchange, the parent company of NFL Draft Scout and Hall of Football, built a rotating network of more than 400 sportswriters covering all U.S. team sports. TSX offered a professional source of original (not aggregated) content as a cost-efficient alternative to wire services. For two decades, through 2018, The Sports Xchange worked with almost 2,000 sportswriters, editors, and administrators, who earned more than $25 million during the journalism industry's great financial stress.
Join the team
Hall of Football invites aspiring scouts, writers, videographers, and anybody with a passion for football to join our team. TSX and NFL Draft Scout were electronic launching points for numerous successes in the industry, including Rob Rang (FOX, pro scout), Dane Brugler (The Athletic), Chad Reuter (NFL.com), Kevin Demof (Los Angeles Rams), and Jay Glazer (FOX)., and many others. You could be next.
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