What Difference Can A Single Game Make?

Year:

2012

Researcher(s):

Johnathan Neville, Laurence D. Robinson (advisor)

Institution:

Ohio Northern University

Discipline:

Statistics

During a single season, each team in the NFL plays 16 games. Because so few games are played, it is believed that the difference between winning or losing a single game can have a substantial influence on a team’s chances of making the playoffs. In this talk we will examine this issue. The full student program can be found here.

Conference:

2012 Miami University Fall Conference: Statistics in Sports (September 28, 2012)