Assessing the Value of NFL Punters

Completed: May 2024

For a data science capstone course, I created a new statistic to assess the value of NFL punters. The formula was based on baseball’s wins above replacement statistic, as I measured how many more points a punter added to his team compared to the average NFL punter. I then compared my statistic to Pro Football Focus’s punter grades to see how it stacked up.

View the final paper here.

Link to my code and the CSV files used for the project.

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