Estimating NCAA Football Coaches’ Abilities An Application of Item Response Theory

Background Began after Tim Brewster was fired at the University of Minnesota. Now they have a new coach again! Wanted to try to predict next great coach. Proceeded to explore data available to answer this question. Data Data came from a few sources: http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/ Wikipedia Goals Predict the ‘ability’ of the coaches. Find other variables that explain variation in the ‘ability’ of the coaches.

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