Super Bowl Project

Statistics Block: E
By: Donnelle Wade

Donnelle Wade
February 10, 2014
Statistics Block: E
Super Bowl Project 2015
On February 1, 2015 it was the 49th Super Bowl. The teams were the
Patriots and the Seahawks. They played a close game, with the Patriots
winning 28 and the Seahawks losing 24. In football it takes a lot of skill and
thought to win the Super Bowl. There is no specific way of figuring out which
team will win the next super bowl because of the amount of teams
competing and their different strategies. In this project we try to figure out if
there is a possible way using statistics that would help us decide who would
win or lose.
For this project I put the information on the excel document and
created a graph for both the winning and the losing teams. This helps with
figuring out the winner for the next games. We then had to find the mean of
the winning and losing teams. A mean of a set of data is the measure of
center found by adding the data values and dividing the total by the number
of data values. For the winning team the mean was 30 and for the losing
team the mean was 16.
With the whisker chart we found that 3 quartiles for each the losing
and the winning teams. A whisker chart is a graph of a data set that consists
of a line extending from the minimum values of the maximum values, and a
box with lines drawn at the first quartile, the median, and the third quartile.
The median scores were slightly different because for the winning teams it
was 30.5 and for the losing teams it was 17.
Standard deviation of a set of sample values is a measure of variation
of values about the mean. For the winning team the standard deviation was

9.876161391 and for the losing team the standard deviation was
6.82295744. They are similar because the numbers are slightly close to each
other but different because the numbers are not the same and the scores
were completely different when having to find the standard deviation. There
were no outliers which are sample values that lie very far away from the vast
majority of the other sample values. There is no relation to the game
because it depends on the player and how they were taught to play.
There could not be a correlation between the Super Bowl number and
the score of the game because it depends on how the team plays while
competing against each other before the Super Bowl and how good they are
on the actual day of the event taking place. It all depends on their skills and
methods on how to play the game. A correlations coefficient is when r
measures the strength of the linear correlation between the paired
quantitative x- and y-values in a sample.
In conclusion it is not possible to determine the winners of the Super
Bowl through statistics. Its all on the team mates and how they
communicate with each other during the game. The number of the game and
score of the game does not help with knowing who will win or lose. It is all in
fate and how things are handles throughout their playtime on the field.