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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"National Football League (NFL)"”.
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The Utility of Collegiate and Combine Statistics For Identifying Potential in NFL Quarterbacks
… building a successful sports franchise. In the National Football League (NFL), the annual draft is a process in which franchises select athletes that will presumably improve their teams chances of winning. Considerable resources are used to determine suitable candidates and to test those …
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Experience of Media and Race in the National Football League: An Existential Phenomological Study
Over 70% percent of the current National Football League (NFL) population is of African-American descent (Lapchick, 2007). Moreover, there is a disparity between sport analyst with 74% of the radio and television announcers being White, and 12% being Black (Lapchick 2006). Thus, the purpose was to …
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Does Decertification Work? Outcome Analysis of the National Football Leagues Negotiated Order (1986-2008).
… order theory to explore how and why the National Football League (NFL) players have twice decertified their union and sought court intervention to challenge the legitimacy of the League's highly restrictive reserve system. An outcome-focused content analysis was designed as a preliminary …
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Measuring Grit in NFL Cornerbacks using Statistical Analysis
Using the pass play tracking data from the 2018 National Football League (NFL) season, I compiled a Grit Score that measured cornerback responses to an adverse result to a play. I calculated this Grit Score using the results of whether a cornerback allowed their opposing receiver to catch the ball …
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The internal labor market of professional football
… an internal labor market for head coaches of the National Football League (NFL). Subjects were those people who were the head coaches of NFL teams for the years 1970 to 1975 and 1980 to 1985. Following theoretical guidelines, the subjects were tested for evidence of industrial, occupational, …
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Optimizing the Allocation of Capital Among Offensive Positions in the NFL
Building a successful National Football League (NFL) team is a challenging task, requiring front offices to balance player selection and compensation while operating under a salary cap constraint. The salary cap represents the maximum amount a team can spend on player salaries in a given season. …
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Head and Black Assistant Coaches in the National Football League: A Comparison of Sociological Profiles
… empirically if Black assistant coaches in the National Football League (NFL) possessed the “necessary” credentials to be a head coach in the NFL. The problem was investigated by developing profiles of head White and assistant Black coaches and then comparing the credentials of the assistant …
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Incorporating spatiotemporal machine learning into Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Rich data sets exist in Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) that track players and equipment (i.e. the ball) in space and time. Using machine learning and other analytical techniques, this research explores the various data sets in each sport, providing advanced …
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DRAFTING INTO MANHOOD: BLACK NFL DRAFT PROSPECTS' CONCEPTIONS OF MANHOOD AND IDEAS OF PLAYING IN THE NFL
… examines how manhood is conceptualized by Black National Football League (NFL) prospects and explores how their characterizations of manhood are associated with their desire to become NFL players. This mixed-method study uses data collected by interviewing and surveying fifteen Black NFL draft …
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Effectiveness of Spatial-temporal Data Using GIS in America’s Professional Sports Leagues (MLS, MLB, and NFL)
… field advantage (HFA) in professional sports leagues in the United States. The literature related to the HFA conceptual framework and the game location factor—which represents four major impacts on teams (crowd, learning, travel, and rules)—led to an investigation into whether a relationship …
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The influence of playing styles and team proficiencies on play call predictability in the NFL
National football League (NFL) teams are unusual in team invasion sports as they are an aggregation of sub-teams (offence and defence), hence research conducted on American football should reflect this fundamental difference. However, research has typically quantified technical behaviours related …
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Expanding the Field: A New Prototype for Stadium Design
… the forms and programs of a contemporary National Football League (NFL) stadium and a large park onto a single site. The resulting landscape is a public domain that is open year round and features a plethora of programmed and unprogrammed opportunities resulting in distributed utility …
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Assessing the hotel requirements of professional sports teams for the hotel industry
… market within the hotel industry. Baseball, football, and basketball were the top three popular sports in terms of attendance in 1988-1990 in the United States; therefore, the sample for this study was 28 Major League Baseball teams, 28 National Football League (NFL) teams, and 27 National …
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Reading between the numbers: the colonial rhetorics of fantasy football and the illusion of control
… sport, gaming and race to explore how fantasy football, an entertainment byproduct of the National Football League (NFL), rearticulates and recontexualizes the colonial ideology already prolific in the NFL and other products of American media culture. I investigate how fantasy football may …
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Share, like, tweet and cheer: an examination of social media usage and the NFL
… States has achieved a greater following than the National Football League (NFL). The introduction and implementation of social media is granting fans unprecedented access to leagues, teams, and players. and providing sport marketers, athletes, and media members with the ability to communicate more …
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Neuropsychological Functioning in Aging National Football League Retirees
… and sub-concussive head impacts sustained over a National Football League (NFL) career have been proposed to increase risk for later cognitive impairment. However, research is generally limited on the neuropsychological functioning among NFL retirees, and no studies to date have investigated the …
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An Evaluation of the Physical Demands of American Football Training in the NFL
American football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. However, unlike other football codes, little is known about its physical demands. Aside from a limited amount of research conducted on college players during training and matches, no research exists on players at the elite …
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Understanding television demand for National Football League: factors influencing sport demand across gender and age cohorts
… of this study is to understand the factors influencing sport demand trends within specific gender and age groups. The main research questions in this study are: “Is there a difference between male and female fans’ sport demand?” “Is there a difference between the demand of younger and older …
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The efficient market hypothesis and gambling on National Football League games
… market. This investigation tests the EMH in the National Football League betting market from the 2002 to 2009 seasons. This study also examines whether there is a bias after a bye week in terms of the EMH. For this investigation we utilized a significance test for proportion and logistic …
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Television viewership and rivalry in the National Football League
… desirable living laboratory. Moreover, rivalry influences demand for sport, infusing significance to each match. Especially in the National Football League, the most watched league in the United States, divisional teams are considered to be in rivalrous relationships. However, relatively little …