Koedel, Cory; Hughes, Andrew; Price, Joshua A. - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2014
We estimate positional "wins above replacement" (WAR) in the National Football League (NFL). Positional WAR measures … first study to construct WAR measures for American football. A key challenge in constructing these measures is that … individual statistics for many football players are not as well-developed as in baseball and basketball. Related to this point …