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

Table 2. Fitted Parameters of Equation 1 for Two National Football League Teams That Experienced a Change of Head Coach During the 2004 Regular Season.

Team Head coaches (games) Reinforcement sensitivity (a  =  slope) Bias (log b  =  intercept) Variance accounted for (%) by Equation 1
Miami Wannstedt (1–9) 0.451 −0.340 30
Bates (10–16) −0.066 0.240 <1
Cleveland Davis (1–11) 0.194 −0.027 7
Robiskie (12–16a) 0.640 −0.174 62.3
a

Game 13 was excluded from the analysis because Cleveland registered negative passing yards in this game, and the logarithmic transformations required to apply Equation 1 are suitable only for positive numbers.