Download or read book A Statistical History of Pro Football written by Rupert Patrick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author's 30-year study of football statistics, this book presents new methods for analyzing the game in different ways. An examination of known distances for missed field goals offers an accurate method for evaluating placekickers. Reassessments of punters and running backs are included, along with an overhaul of the NFL's passer rating system. Topics previously unexplored through statistics are covered, such as momentum, defining "What is a dynasty?" and "What is a Cinderella team?"
Download or read book Pro Football Almanac written by Mark Wald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part reference and part history, this first volume of the Pro Football Almanac collects the betting lines for more than 13,000 pro football games dating back to 1940, including complete NFL seasons since 1954. An opening essay on the history of the pointspread sets the stage for the data that follows. In a lively, flowing narrative, Wald traces the evolution of the pointspread from its beginning as a crude adjunct to betting odds to the standard betting option for football that it is today. Debunking myths and confirming others, Wald shines a spotlight on a subject that continues to be one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented in sports. Of course, the heart of Volume I is the data. Covering three professional leagues (NFL-AFL-AAFC) and over 40 teams, historians and data geeks alike could spend five years on a sandy spit with this tome before dog-earing the pages. Featuring lists of pro football's greatest coaches against the spread and top 5 games as favorite and underdog by team, the Pro Football Almanac, Vol I is the most thoroughly researched work ever published on the subject.
Download or read book Pro Football Almanac Vol II Weather written by Mark Wald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search the web and you'll find various analyses of the impact of weather on NFL games. They all have one thing in common-the analysis is good, but the underlying data is suspect. Until now, most pro football weather data are based on daily high, lows, or averages for temperature, wind, and humidity; based on city climate averages; taken from dubious league gamebooks; missing cloud cover and precipitation; based on kickoff conditions only; based on recent or narrow timeframe; unsourced (i.e., where did the data come from and when was it measured?). In this second volume of his Pro Football Almanac series, Mark Wald collects empirical weather data for every outdoor pro football game played since hourly surface observations became standard-the 1940s for most teams, back to 1937 for a few others. 12,189 games covering three professional leagues: AAFC, AFL, NFL Temperature, humidity, wind, gust, wind chill, cloud cover, and precipitation Up to four data points per game, covering three hours Measured at the time games were played, by the nearest NOAA weather station Pro Football Almanac Vol II is the most accurate pro football weather resource ever compiled.
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Download or read book Pro Football Schedules written by Ivan Urena and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years. It includes a history on the evolution of the pro football schedule, explores all of the scheduling formulas used in the National Football League, American Football League and the All-America Football Conference, and presents home-and-away opponent charts from 1933 through the 2017 season.
Download or read book Official Pro Football Almanac written by Bill Wise and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book NFL Football written by Richard C. Crepeau and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. The updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league's centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today: Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue; The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality; Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health; Paul Tagliabue's role in covering up information on concussions; The Super Bowl's evolution into a national holiday. Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story.
Download or read book A Statistical History of Pro Football written by Rupert Patrick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author's 30-year study of football statistics, this book presents new methods for analyzing the game in different ways. An examination of known distances for missed field goals offers an accurate method for evaluating placekickers. Reassessments of punters and running backs are included, along with an overhaul of the NFL's passer rating system. Topics previously unexplored through statistics are covered, such as momentum, defining "What is a dynasty?" and "What is a Cinderella team?"
Download or read book Kids World Almanac of Pro Football written by Bill Gutman and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 100 Yards of Glory written by Joe Garner and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creators of the best-selling And the Crowd Goes Wild present an officially endorsed collection of key historical events that combines archival photography with coverage of such famed stories as the Immaculate Reception, the Ice Bowl and the Music City Miracle, in a volume complemented by a 10-part documentary by an Emmy Award-winning team.
Download or read book Illustrated History of Pro Football written by Robert Smith and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1970 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful story of professional football.
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Download or read book The Pro Football Weekly 1995 Almanac written by Richard Whittingham and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editorial team of Pro Football Weekly brings its wealth of knowledge and front-line expertise together in the most complete annual available. This must-have for every football fan contains statistics, facts, behind-the-scenes stories, and expert commentary--all in this one authoritative volume.
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