Technical Note—Operations Research on Football

Virgil Carter and Robert E. Machol
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Virgil Carter: Cincinnati Bengals Football Team, Cincinnati, Ohio
Robert E. Machol: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Operations Research, 1971, vol. 19, issue 2, 541-544

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1971
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