[winflop]

Are we a basketball school now?

I have a theory: a*F + b*B = k, where F and B are our winning percentages in football and men's basketball, respectively, in the same year, and k is a constant. I'm too lazy to collate all the data, however.

Here you go. Over the past 10 years (including the current season):

7F + 10B = 11. F=x and B=y on the graph.

http://imgur.com/a/tOPf1uv

Time for a nerd moment...I teach intro to statistics. When I teach linear regression, the first thing I tell students to do is plot the data and just look at it. Ask yourself "does this data look like a x-y line would represent it well?" If not, then don't do a regression because the result will be pretty meaningless. And that is the case here.

[winflop]

Are we a basketball school now?

I have a theory: a*F + b*B = k, where F and B are our winning percentages in football and men's basketball, respectively, in the same year, and k is a constant. I'm too lazy to collate all the data, however.

Here you go. Over the past 10 years (including the current season):

7F + 10B = 11. F=x and B=y on the graph.

http://imgur.com/a/tOPf1uv

Time for a nerd moment...I teach intro to statistics. When I teach linear regression, the first thing I tell students to do is plot the data and just look at it. Ask yourself "does this data look like a x-y line would represent it well?" If not, then don't do a regression because the result will be pretty meaningless. And that is the case here.