JSM Activity #168

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Activity ID:  168
Title
* Factors that Affect Outcomes in Football Games
Date / Time / Room Sponsor Type
08/13/2002
8:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: H-Nassau Suite B 		Section on Statistics in Sports* Topic Contributed
Organizer: Hal Stern, Iowa State University
Chair: Hal Stern, Iowa State University
Discussant:  
Description

Football is a complex game with many factors affecting the final outcome. The speakers explore (1) how the decision to go for two points after a touchdown should be employed, (2) the role of turnovers in explaining wins by underdogs and (3) factors that relate to who wins a game that goes into sudden death overtime. In the NFL missed field goals are not returned. The team gets the ball at the 20 yard line or the line of scrimmage at the attempt. In Canadian football the kicking team gets a point if the missed field goal is not returned. Repercussions of this rule will be explored
  301128  By:  David  Mease 8:35 AM 08/13/2002
A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Approach for the Ranking of College Football Teams

  300775  By:  Harold   Sackrowitz 8:55 AM 08/13/2002
When To Go For Two

  301271  By:  William  Hurley 9:15 AM 08/13/2002
Does Chance Explain the Any Given Sunday Phenomena?

  300711  By:  Keith  Willoughby 9:35 AM 08/13/2002
He... Could... Go... All... The... Way: Evaluating the Return of the Missed Field Goal in Canadian Football

  300883  By:  Todd S. Bishop 9:55 AM 08/13/2002
Prediction of the NBA and the NFL Draft Picks for 2001 and 2002

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