Question

The 2015-16 season was historic for Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors. They finished the regular season with a 73-9 record, which beat out the Chicago Bulls 1995-96 record of 72-10 for the best regular season record in NBA history. This question takes a statistical look at the business of pro basketball. The accompanying dataset nba.csv contains information on 269 NBA players for one specific season. Here is a description of some of the variables in the dataset:

Variable Description
wage player's salary for the season in thousands of nominal dollars
exper number of years in the league
Age age of the player
coll years of college completed
games number of games played that season
minutes total number of minutes played in the season
guard dummy indicator whether player plays guard position
forward dummy indicator whether player plays forward position
center dummy indicator whether player plays center position
points season average number of points per game played
rebounds season average number of rebounds per game played
assists season average number of assists per game played

Required:
Test whether players who play the guard position are paid the sameas other players.

Answer 1

NFL teams play 16 regular season games each year, NHL and NBA teams play 82, while MLB teams play 162-could invalidate direct comparisons of win percentages alone. As an example, the highest annual team winning percentage is roughly 87% in the NFL but only 61% in MLB and part (but not all) of that difference is undoubtedly tied to the shorter NFL regular season