Q1 Question 1 26 in text The National Football League NFL is

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Q1 Question 1 26 in text The National Football League NFL is a lucrative business generating an annual revenue of about 15 billion One key to becoming a financially successful NFL team is drafting a good quarterback QB out of college The NFL draft allows the worst performing teams in the previous year the opportunity of selecting the best quarterbacks coming out of college The Journal of Productivity Analysis Vol 35 2011 published a study of how successful NFL teams are in drafting productive quarter backs Data were collected for 331 quarterbacks drafted over a 38 year period Several variables were measured for each QB including draft position recorded as one of the top 10 players picked selection between picks 11 and 50 or selected after pick 50 NFL winning ratio percentage of games won and QB production score a numeric score where higher values indicate more productive QBs The researchers discovered that draft position is only weakly related to a quarterback s performance in the NFL They concluded that quarterbacks taken higher in the draft do not appear to perform any better What is the experimental unit for this study 1 pt a NFL b Quarterback c Draft position d Top 10 players e Draft ratio