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 |
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.