Executive Summary

It is of little surprise that the New England Patriots are an outlier in overall win percentage from 2011-2020 – 74%! I became interested...

Box and Whisker Plot of Win Percentages

The maximum value, 73.75, is the win percentage of the New England Patriots. No surprise there! The minimum value, 27.50, is the...

Graphs of Win Percentages

Rather than have one giant graph with the win percentages of all 32 teams, I decided to show this data over five different sections. I...

GM Tenure vs Win Percentages (Raw Percent and Ordinal Ranks)

General managers are the people in charge of the draft picks for each team. I looked up the current GMs for each team and ranked how long...

Raw Data

Here is my raw data for the project. In column A, we have the 32 NFL teams sorted alphabetically by conference (AFC and NFC). I then...

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My project for Gettysburg College, Math 353 (Probability and Statistics), Spring 2022

My project was to analyze the NFL draft, determining whether it affected team win percentage rankings. A Chi-squared analysis revealed that from the years 2011 to 2020, the teams were not equal in terms of win percentages. That likelihood is less than 0.01 percent! On average, among all 32 groups, there was no change in ordinal ranking for win percentages. However, there were significant changes in the bottom 16 teams.

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