

That’s a red flag right there for a bad variable. Even a QB who has been sacked will only see his Cmp% moved by 1.5%. And it doesn’t take much work realized which variable is more important.

Here are the big three components of a regression. The first thing we’ll need to do is enable that ToolPack. But we can still answer those other two questions - as well as add more variables - using Excel data Analysis ToolPack. A regression won’t tell us direction of causality. The first issue is a matter of deeper research. Does the regression fit the data? And ANOVA analysis can be useful in augmenting what the R 2 tells us.


Are their peculiarities in the residuals? This article does a great job of teaching how to interpret residuals plots.What direction, if any, is the causality? Are homers causing players to strikeout? Or do more strikeouts make more homers?.And the R 2 tells us the relationship between HR and SO explains 48% of the variation between the two of them. So now we have a regression! The formula ( HR = 3.5367 * SO + 29.166) tell us there is a positive connection between home run totals and strikeout totals. These two boxes give you the bare minimum of data necessary to interpret a regression.
