数据挖掘_Pro football scores data(专业足球比分数据).pdfVIP

Pro football scores data(专业足球比分数据) 数据摘要： Scores and point spreads for all NFL games in the 1989-91 seasons. 中文关键词： 数据挖掘,体育,足球,分数,NFL, 英文关键词： Data mining,Sport,Football,Score,NFL, 数据格式： TEXT 数据用途： The data can be used for data mining and analysis. 数据详细介绍： Pro football scores data  Abstract How well do the oddsmakers of Las Vegas predict the outcome of professional football games? Is there really a home field advantage - if so how large is it? Are teams that play the Monday Night game at a disadvantage when they play again the following Sunday? Do teams benefit from having a bye week off in the current schedule? These questions and a host of others can be investigated using this data set. Hal Stern from the Statistics Department at Harvard University has made available his compilation of scores for all National Football League games from the 1989, 1990, and 1991 seasons. Dr. Stern used these data as part of his presentation Whos Number One? in the special Best of Boston session at the 1992 Joint Statistics Meetings. Several variables in the data are keyed to the oddsmakers point spread for each game. The point spread is a value assigned before each game to serve as a handicap for whichever is perceived to be the better team. Thus, to win against the point spread, the favorite team must beat the underdog team by more points than the spread. The underdog wins against the spread if it wins the game outright or manages to lose by fewer points than the spread. In theory, the point spread should represent the expert prediction as to the games outcome. In practice, it more usually denotes a point at which an equal amount of money