QB_draft: Quarterbacks in the National Football League draft, 1997-2013

In dtkaplan/SDSdata: Data and utilities for the book Statistics for Data Science

Quarterbacks in the National Football League draft, 1997-2013

Description

Quarterbacks in the National Football League draft, 1997-2013

Usage

data(QB_draft)

Format

A data.frame object with one row for each American football college quarterback who was drafted into the National Football League.

• Year: Year drafted into the NFL

• Round: Draft round the player was selected

• Pick: Order of the player among those drafted in his year

• NFLTeam: The NFL team that drafted the player

• College: The college played for

• Div1A: Whether the college was in Division 1A of the NCAA

• Name: Player's name

• ColG: Number of college games played

• ColRushAtt: Number of rush attempts made in college games

• ColRushYds: Total yards gained in those rush attempts

• ColRushTD: Number of touchdowns scored in those rush attempts

• ColAtt: Number of passes attempted in college games

• ColComp: Number of completed passes in college games

• ColInt: Number of intercepted passes given up in college games

• ColYds: Total yards gained in college games

• ColTD: Total number of

• G - Number of NFL games played

• Comp: Number of passes completed in NFL games

• Att: Number of passes attempted in NFL games

• Yds: Number of yards gained in NFL games

• TD: Number of touchdowns scored in NFL games

• Int: Number of intercepted passes given up in NFL games

• RushAtt: Number of rushing attempts in NFL games

• RushYds: Total yards gained in those attempts

• RushTD: Number of times touchdown scored on a

• CarAV: "Career approximate value" statistic for player

• Sacks: Number of times sacked in NFL games

• FumLost: Number of fumbles made in NFL games

• ProBowls: Number of NFL pro-bowl games played

• YrsStarterPrior2015: Numbe of years the QB was a starter for their pro team (before 2015, when the data were assembled).

• Wonderlic: Score on Wonderlic intelligence test

• height: Height in inches

• weight: Weight in pounds

• BenchReps: Number of bench presses

• Yard40: Time to run 40 yards (secs)

• Yard20: Time to run 20 yards (secs)

• Yard10: Time to run 10 yards (secs)

• VerticalJump: Height of vertical jump (inches)

• BroadJump: Length of broad jump (inches)

• shuttle: time to complete the shuttle shuttle (secs)

• cone: time to complete the 3-cone drill (secs)

• time: the record time in seconds

• swimmer the name of the swimmer

• date a Date object containing the date the record was made

• place string descripting the location

• sex: coded as F and M

• lengths: the total distance was divided into lengths of either 25 or 50 meters. lengths gives the number of such lengths in the total distance.

• dist: the total distance (in meters) of the race

Source

Wolfson, J., Addona, V., and Schmicker, R. (2017) Forecasting the performance of college prospects selected in the National Football League draft. In J. Albert, M.E. Glickman, T.B. Swartz, & R.H. Koning (Eds.), Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

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