College Football: Doing Less With More and More With Less

Gary Smith, Jordan Hawkins () and Jack Storrs ()
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Jordan Hawkins: Pomona College
Jack Storrs: Pomona College

Economics Department, Working Paper Series from Economics Department, Pomona College

Abstract: There is a substantial and highly significant correlation between the performance of widely followed college football teams and the pre-college recruiting scores received by their players. This correlation implies a regression toward the mean that should be taken into account in the identification of under-performing and over-performing teams and can also be used to improve pre-season predictions of the performance of teams with highly rated and lowly rated recruits.

Keywords: football recruting; regression to mean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-01, Revised 2019-06-04
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