Okay, so I’ve been messing around with some NFL data lately, specifically looking at quarterback heights. You know, just curious to see if there’s any pattern or interesting tidbits in there. I’m a big NFL fan, so naturally, I’m always curious about these things.
Getting Started
First thing I did was find some data. After some digging around, I stumbled upon a pretty decent dataset that listed a bunch of NFL players, including their positions and heights. It wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough for what I wanted to do.
Cleaning Up
Of course, the data wasn’t all nice and tidy. I had to do some cleaning. You know how it is – sometimes there are missing values, or things are formatted weirdly. So, I fired up my trusty Python script and started cleaning. I used things like `pandas` and regular expressions to get the data into shape. I filtered it down to just quarterbacks, since that’s what I was interested in.
Analyzing Heights
Once I had my clean list of QBs and their heights, I started playing around with some basic stats. I calculated the average height, the tallest, the shortest – that kind of stuff. I found out that the average height is around 74.6 inches. Nothing too crazy there.
Top 5 Tallest
Then I decided to look at the top 5 tallest quarterbacks in my dataset. Here’s what I found:
- Brock Osweiler – 80 inches
- Paxton Lynch – 79 inches
- Dan McGwire – 79 inches
- Ryan Mallett – 79 inches
- Mike Glennon – 79 inches
Top 5 Shortest
And then I did the same for the shortest:
- Doug Flutie – 70 inches
- Russell Wilson – 70 inches
- Seneca Wallace – 71 inches
- Kyler Murray – 71 inches
- Drew Brees – 72 inches
Wrapping Up
So yeah, that’s pretty much it. Just a little data project I did for fun. It was cool to see the range of heights among NFL quarterbacks and to confirm some of the names I already had in mind. I might dig deeper into this later, maybe look at how height correlates with performance, but for now, I’m pretty satisfied with what I found. Plus, it’s always fun to mess around with data, right?
