punting: American football punting

In fastR: Foundations and Applications of Statistics Using R

Description

Investigators studied physical characteristics and ability in 13 football punters. Each volunteer punted a football ten times. The investigators recorded the average distance for the ten punts, in feet. They also recorded the average hang time (time the ball is in the air before the receiver catches it), and a number of measures of leg strength and flexibility.

Format

A data frame with 13 observations on the following 7 variables.

• distance mean distance for 10 punts (feet)

• hang mean hang time (seconds)

• rStrength right leg strength (pounds)

• lStrength left leg strength (pounds)

• rFlexibility right leg flexibility (degrees)

• lFlexibility left leg flexibility (degrees)

• oStrength overall leg strength (foot-pounds)

Source

These data are also available at OzDASL (http://www.statsci.org/data/).

References

"The relationship between selected physical performance variables and football punting ability" by the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1983.

Examples

data(punting)
xyplot(hang ~ distance, data=punting)

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