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Decision Making Within An Nfl Context Using Multiple Objective Decision Analysis, Lawson Porter
Decision Making Within An Nfl Context Using Multiple Objective Decision Analysis, Lawson Porter
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The National Football League (NFL) is the most popular sports league in the world, with millions of viewers every game and billions of dollars generated every season. Statistics are an important part of an NFL team’s business operating model and contribute greatly towards their decision making. Every season, general managers try to sign players that give the team the highest probability of winning games throughout the year. There are many factors that go into this decision, including the amount of money the team has to spend and the value that available players can bring to a team. Teams must abide …