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.