The Hidden Game of Football: A Revolutionary Approach to the Game and Its Statistics is a book on American football statistics published in 1988 and written by Bob Carroll, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer.

[2] The purpose of the book is to look at the statistics of football and how they change the game based on coaching decision and player selection.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, in a 1988 review for The New York Times, found the application of statistics to football "cumbersome.

"[1] Rustin Dodd, in a retrospective article in The Athletic, described the book as "a seminal work of football analytics" in 2022.

[5] The book inspired Aaron Schatz to found Football Outsiders, and develop the Defense-adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA) statistic.