Type:
Category:
Volume:
9(3)
Pages:
Online
Year:
2001
Publisher:
Journal of Statistics Education
URL:
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v9n3/datasets.watnik.html
Abstract:
The dataset associated with this paper is from the 2000 regular season of the National Football League (NFL). We use principal components techniques to evaluate team "strength." In some of our analyses, the first two principal components can be interpreted as measure of "offensive" and "defensive" strengths, respectively. In other circumstances, the first principal component compares a team against its opponents.
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