Open AccessTechnical Note—Operations Research on Football
Author(s) -
Virgil Carter,
Robert E. Machol
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
operations research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.797
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1526-5463
pISSN - 0030-364X
DOI - 10.1287/opre.19.2.541
Subject(s) - football , league , possession (linguistics) , operations research , schedule , computer science , census , political science , engineering , sociology , law , population , demography , linguistics , philosophy , physics , astronomy , operating system
Based on a census of 8,373 plays from the first 56 games of the 1969 schedule of the National Football League, this note calculates, for various field positions, the expected point values of possession of the football with first down and ten yards to go, and discusses the strategic implications of these values.
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