# NFL Favorite Team

This folder contains data behind the story [The Rams Are Dead To Me, So I Answered 3,352 Questions To Find A New NFL Team](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rams-are-dead-to-me-so-i-answered-3352-questions-to-find-a-new-team/).

`team-picking-categories.csv` contains grades for each NFL franchise in 16 categories, to be used to pick a new favorite team.

| abbrev |                                                           category                                                            |
|--------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| FRL    | Fan relations - Courtesy by players, coaches and front offices toward fans, and how well a team uses technology to reach them |
| OWN    | Ownership - Honesty; loyalty to core players and the community                                                                |
| PLA    | Players - Effort on the field, likability off it                                                                              |
| FUT    | Future wins - Projected wins over next 5 seasons                                                                              |
| BWG    | Bandwagon Factor - Are the team's next 5 years likely to be better than their previous 5?                                     |
| TRD    | Tradition - Championships/division titles/wins in team's entire history                                                       |
| BNG    | Bang for the buck - Wins per fan dollars spent                                                                                |
| BEH    | Behavior - Suspensions by players on team since 2007, with extra weight to transgressions vs. women                           |
| NYP    | Proximity to New York City                                                                                                    |
| SLP    | Proximity to St. Louis                                                                                                        |
| AFF    | Affordability - Price of tickets, parking and concessions                                                                     |
| SMK    | Small Market - Size of market in terms of population, where smaller is better                                                 |
| STX    | Stadium experience - Quality of venue; fan-friendliness of environment; frequency of game-day promotions                      |
| CCH    | Coaching - Strength of on-field leadership                                                                                    |
| UNI    | Uniform - Stylishness of uniform design, according to Uni Watch's Paul Lukas                                                  |
| BMK    | Big Market - Size of market in terms of population, where bigger is better                                                    |

Should be used in conjunction with weights derived from a survey structured like this: http://www.allourideas.org/nflteampickingsample.

This dataset was scraped from [FiveThirtyEight - nfl-favorite-team](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nfl-favorite-team)