The passing premium puzzle is the existence of a balance between the number of passing and running plays, even though … there is a greater expected return in passing plays. The puzzle is documented using both historical trends of aggregate … numbers and play by play data from the 2005 NFL season. …

The passing premium puzzle states that NFL teams do not call enough passing plays, despite rule changes since the late … 1970's that have increased the expected return to passing. This paper develops a simple portfolio model to determine how a … coach could determine an optimal share of running and passing plays to maximize the expected yardage return from the …

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …