Today's investigation will take a look into the NFL's top defense right now, including their average yards given up per game and how they stack up against the rest of the league.
What is a confidence interval again?: A series of simulations to see how close a team or athlete is to their ability. These are 95% accurate, and today's involves two means that are featured above. Confidence Interval Results: The Jaguars have the ability to allow more than 219.12 yards away while allowing less than 339.62 at home. Z-Scores for Total Yards Given Up: League Average for Yards Given Up- 3093.47 Jacksonville's Z-Score: -1.53 (2572 yards) Why this is good: Jacksonville is 1.53 standard deviations away from the league-average, which is as far as it gets for the league. To put this into perspective, the worst defense (Indianapolis Colts) is 2.24 standard deviations above what a team should give up for yardage. Jacksonville's defense gives up an average of 14.9 points per game while Cleveland's offense scores about 15.9 points per game. It could swing in Jacksonville's favor, or Cleveland could stop the three-game win streak tomorrow.
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