... flavors the commentary in NFL news and other publications. My opinion is that if an attribute admits to some type of measure theory, then the researcher should attempt to measure it.

Pattern recognition, at an elementary level, is a powerful way to study an issue, situation or phenomenon. The discipline to tally the sports data, define categories for the sports data, and to aggregate the sports (NFL) data are some of the fundamental steps to this type of study.

This article is Pt. 3 and it is related to Pattern Recognition, Pt. 2: Number of HOF Recipients by NFL Franchise.

In this article the data was separated to indicate the persons who played five years of more with a team (bold), and those who...

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