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| Title: |
The NFL Coaching Network: Analysis of the Social Network Among Professional Football Coaches
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| Author(s): |
Andrew Fast, David Jensen |
| Venue: |
AAAI Fall Symposia on 'Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection' 2006 |
| Abstract: |
The interactions of professional football coaches and teams in the National Football League (NFL) form a complex social network. This network provides a great opportunity to analyze the influence that coaching mentors have on their proteges. Based on this network, we identify a number of characteristics of championship coaches that can be used to predict future coaching success. We also utilize the coaching network to learn a model of which teams will make the playoffs in a given year. Developing comprehensive models of complex adaptive networks, such as the network of NFL coaches, poses a difficult challenge for researchers. From our analysis of the NFL, we identify three types of dependencies that any model of complex network data must be able to represent. |
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| Playoffs: |
[2006 Playoff Predictions] |
| BibTex: |
@inproceedings{fast2006nfl,
Author = {Andrew Fast and David Jensen},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium on Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection},
Title = {The NFL Coaching Network: Analysis of the Social Network Among Professional Football Coaches},
Year = {2006}}
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