• In the National Football League (NFL), roughly a third of teams’ offensive yardage comes from run plays.

  • In this project, I tried to develop a model to predict how many yards a team will gain on given rushing plays as they happen.

Analysing NFL Big Data Bowl and predicting Yards Gained.

In this project we will do analysis of NFL Big Data Bowl Dataset.

  • For a quick look at dataset features click here. Link

  • To see Full porject and Notebooks click here. Link

    Top five fasted players

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players with highest acceleration.

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Relation between Defenders in the Box and Yards Gained by team.

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We also trained our Machine Learning Model to predict Yards Gained.

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Model Prediction Has An RMSE of 0.8456

  • Given mean of test data was 4.23 kd