A Punt Returner Location Problem

Jack Brimberg, W. J. Hurley and R. E. Johnson
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Jack Brimberg: University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
W. J. Hurley: Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
R. E. Johnson: Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Operations Research, 1999, vol. 47, issue 3, 482-487

Abstract: We formulate and solve a location problem that determines where to position punt returners to maximize the number of punts caught. The problem is unusual within the location literature because it includes the dimension of time as well as Euclidean distance. The parameters of the model are estimated from actual punt return data. Our major finding is that the standard horizontal configuration of two punt returners results in only a small increase in the percentage of punts fielded over the case where a single returner is used. Moreover if a punter is not “directionalizing,” the vertical configuration of two returners (the punter and two returners are colinear) outperforms a horizontal configuration.

Keywords: location; decision analysis; probability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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