College Football Team Roster Composition And Relationship With Team Performance

This paper proposes and compares a set of models of college football team rosters for teams in major conferences during the years of 2018-2019. A cluster analysis was performed to classify groups of teams, using the number of scholarship players at various position groups, the class years of those players, other physical attributes such as height and weight, as well as the players’ recruiting rankings on www.247sports.com. Once the clusters were determined, we examinedthe clusters for a relationship between the clusters and team.