There is a trade off between how fast a football goes and how much control you have on it. And football designers are always trying to get a ball that goes faster and that has great control. The trade off involves seams (panels) big bumps. The texture of the ball (tiny bumps). This is a graph to tell the story of how theyre has been back and forth over time as technology tries to get us to 1 panel but also sometimes we go to far and step back.
Bray's prediction of one panel by 2022 and why
Nature paper on football shape
The drag crises, spin and how the 2024 football works
I talked before about how we should be playing with 1 panel balls by 2022 here
Code and data for this graph is here
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