A football team plays 75% of their games on a field made of natural grass and...
In the middle of the 2016 football season the Seattle Seahawks got a new surface on their football field at Century Link Stadium. The Seahawks started the season playing on real grass and ended the season playing on artificial turf. The table below shows the win-lose-tie point record on the two types of grass. Win Loss Tie Real Grass 1 3 1 Artificial Grass 9 2 0 Does it seem that the type of grass made the team have a...
1) Let ?? ∈ {−1,0,1} represet
the outcome of games that your favorit soccer team plays; −1 for a
loss, 0 for a tie and 1 for a win. Also, let ?? ∈ {0, 1} represent
whether the game was played at home (1) or away (0). The following
table shows the conditional probability of ??|??: ( picture)
a. Show whether ?? and ?? are independent or not.
b. If the proportion of games that the team plays away from...
In 29 of the first 52 Super Bowl games in professional football (56%), the winning team won by over 9 points (double digits). Suppose we randomly select 10 Super Bowl games out of the first 52 and count the number in which the winning team had a double digit victory. Assume independence between the Super Bowls selected- consider them to be chosen with replacement. a) Define the random variable, x, and give the name and important parameters of the probability...
3. In a National Football League (NFL) regular season, each team plays 16 games. Let " wins" be the number of regular season wins by a team in a particular season (taking a tie as half a win.) Since on average teams win half their games, the distribution of team wins has mean 8. Assume the distribution of team wins stays about the same from year to year. There is a positive correlation between a team's wins one year and...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) records a variety of statistics for each team. Five of these statistics are he percentage of games won (Win %), the percentage of field goals made (FG%), the percentage of three-point shots made (3P%), the percentage of the free throws made (FT%), the average number of offensive rebounds per game (RBOff), and the average number of defensive rebounds per game (RBDef). The data given in the table below show the values of these statistics for...