Description

Game outcomes and point spreads for 672 professional American football games.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 672 observations on the following 8 variables.

year

year of game

home

indicates if favorite is the home team

favorite

score of favorite team

underdog

score of underdog team

spread

point spread

favorite.name

name of favorite team

underdog.name

name of underdog team

week

week number of the season

Source

Gelman, A., Carlin, J., Stern, H., and Rubin, D. (2003), Bayesian Data Analysis, Chapman and Hall.