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. 2006 Fall;39(3):281–297. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2006.146-05

Table 1. Fitted Parameters of Equation 1 for Each National Football League Team for the 16 Games of the 2004 Regular Season.

Team Reinforcement sensitivity (a  =  slope) Bias (log b  =  intercept) Variance accounted for (%) by Equation 1
Arizona Cardinals 0.567 −0.080 67.0
Atlanta Falcons 0.413 −0.109 28.9
Baltimore Ravens 0.528 −0.054 51.9
Buffalo Bills 0.391 −0.086 40.9
Carolina Panthers 0.608 −0.129 61.6
Chicago Bears 0.489 −0.022 62.8
Cincinnati Bengals 0.473 −0.034 40.5
Cleveland Brownsa 0.366 −0.078 22.7
Dallas Cowboys 0.502 −0.082 59.6
Denver Broncos 0.620 −0.165 61.6
Detroit Lions 0.415 0.004 57.7
Green Bay Packers 0.615 −0.105 64.1
Houston Texans 0.470 −0.132 46.8
Indianapolis Colts 0.585 −0.150 85.3
Jacksonville Jaguars 0.486 −0.044 54.1
Kansas City Chiefs 0.652 −0.122 73.3
Miami Dolphins 0.399 0.025 23.7
Minnesota Vikings 0.645 −0.109 57.6
New England Patriots 0.575 −0.167 85.3
New Orleans Saints 0.591 −0.092 62.1
New York Giants 0.343 −0.017 38.1
New York Jets 0.537 −0.149 65.7
Oakland Raiders 0.419 0.046 53.1
Philadelphia Eagles 0.716 −0.105 59.6
Pittsburgh Steelers 0.635 −0.256 57.9
San Diego Chargers 0.900 −0.232 57.8
San Francisco 49ers 0.695 −1.00 77.6
Seattle Seahawks 0.588 −0.076 43.9
St. Louis Rams 0.575 −0.077 74.4
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0.663 −0.136 78.6
Tennessee Titans 0.726 −0.058 79.6
Washington Redskins 0.776 −0.097 70.2
a

Analysis based on 15 games. Cleveland accrued negative net passing yards in one game. Because logarithmic transformations can be performed only on positive numbers, this game was omitted from analysis.