Sports and Numbers

 
NFL teams can turn things around quicker than other sports Print E-mail
Nov 16, 2007

This analysis examines the correlation between a team's winning percentage in each season versus its prior season's winning percentage.  The NFL comes up on the shortest end of the stick compared to other pro sports.  Very interesting and actually not surprising.  At the very least, a winning percentage based on only sixteen games will be a poorer measure of team performance.  Though the article doesn't mention that as an explanation, it does offer several others.

 

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