Designing the Perfect NFL Team (Part II)

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY SportsWelcome to the thrilling conclusion of my study to determine what the perfect NFL team would look like. In Part I, I offered a brief overview of my goals with Crunching The Numbers and my methodology for the 2016 formula. I also posed twelve hypotheses - six on offense and six on defense - about what successful NFL teams do well to help them win consistently. Read on to see the method for my analysis and the ensuing results.

The Analysis

Like in past years, I used a simple Pearson correlation coefficient to determine the relationship between how teams performed in each metric that I tested and the number of wins those teams had. Since football is a constantly…