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Results of National Football League games (2007 season, including playoffs)

Format

A data frame with 267 observations on the following 7 variables.

date

date on which game was played

visitor

visiting team

visitorScore

score for visiting team

home

home team

homeScore

score for home team

line

`betting line'

totalLine

'over/under' line (for combined score of both teams)

Examples


data(NFL2007) 
#> Warning: data set ‘NFL2007’ not found
NFL <- NFL2007 
NFL$dscore <- NFL$homeScore - NFL$visitorScore 
w <- which(NFL$dscore > 0) 
NFL$winner <- NFL$visitor; NFL$winner[w] <- NFL$home[w] 
NFL$loser <- NFL$home; NFL$loser[w] <- NFL$visitor[w] 
# did the home team win? 
NFL$homeTeamWon <- NFL$dscore > 0 
table(NFL$homeTeamWon)
#> 
#> FALSE  TRUE 
#>   115   152 
table(NFL$dscore > NFL$line)
#> 
#> FALSE  TRUE 
#>   135   132