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OK, if we are really going to nerd out (and like Winflop, I also taught introductory stats, though I am not a statistician, and the students were Pharmacy students), one thing that needs to be pointed out is that the observations are not independent, which is one of the requirements for performing an OLS regression.  Basically, there is an internal correlation structure between the datapoints, because consecutive seasons in a given season are more likely to have similar results than seasons with more time between them.  The bottom line is that Harbaugh came to Stanford one year before Dawkins, and the revival of Stanford football (including 10 consecutive bowl games between 2009 and 2018 coincided with the relative decline of basketball with only one NCAA tournament over that time).

This is one of my favorite stats related sites:

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

BC

[BostonCard]

OK, if we are really going to nerd out (and like Winflop, I also taught introductory stats, though I am not a statistician, and the students were Pharmacy students), one thing that needs to be pointed out is that the observations are not independent, which is one of the requirements for performing an OLS regression.  Basically, there is an internal correlation structure between the datapoints, because consecutive seasons in a given season are more likely to have similar results than seasons with more time between them.  The bottom line is that Harbaugh came to Stanford one year before Dawkins, and the revival of Stanford football (including 10 consecutive bowl games between 2009 and 2018 coincided with the relative decline of basketball with only one NCAA tournament over that time).

This is one of my favorite stats related sites:

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

BC