Professional Bull Riding Analysis
Module
Please note that these material have not yet completed the required pedagogical and industry peer-reviews to become a published module on the SCORE Network. However, instructors are still welcome to use these materials if they are so inclined.
Introduction
Professional Bull Riding (PBR) is a sport that requires a unique combination of skill, strength, and courage. Riders must stay on a bucking bull as long as they can, using only one hand to hold on while the bull tries to throw them off. The rider is scored based on their performance, and the bull is also scored based on how well it bucks. In this dataset, we will explore the data from the 2023 season of the PBR league, Touring Pro Division, to understand the factors that contribute to a rider’s success and the performance, and the same for the bulls.
- In these worksheets, we will exploring models that predict the points earned by riders and bulls in the 2023 season of the Professional Bull Riding (PBR) league, Touring Pro Division. We will fit multiple linear regression models to predict rider points and logistic regression models to predict bull points. We will interpret the model summary outputs, analyze patterns and trends, identify potential outliers, and test model efficiency.
Data
A data frame for 38 riders from the 2023 season of the Professional Bull Riding (PBR) league, for the Touring Pro Division. These data frames hold the stats for the riders and the bulls they ride. The data was scraped from the PBR website. For the rider data set, there are 357 riders with 16 variables, however, not all of the riders points meaning they would not hold a lot of significance in data and may skew the results. The bull data set has 50 bulls with 11 variables on their scoring statistics.
Riders Data: Variable Descriptions
Variable | Description |
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Rider |
Name of the pro bull rider |
Points |
Total points earned by the bull rider |
Points Back |
Difference in points between the rider and the leader |
Events |
Number of events participated in by the rider |
Outs |
Number of times the rider went through gate (Rides + Buckoffs) |
Rides |
Number of successful rides by the rider |
Buckoffs |
Number of unsuccessful rides by the rider |
prop.Ridden |
Percent of successful rides |
Avg Ride Score |
Average score for successful rides by the rider |
Highest RideScore |
Highest score achieved by the rider in a single ride |
Avg Buckoff Time |
Average time spent on bulls that the rider failed to ride |
Round Wins |
Number of round wins achieved by the rider |
Event Wins |
Number of event wins achieved by the rider |
ReRides Taken |
Number of re-rides taken by the rider |
Earnings |
Total earnings of the rider from bull riding events |
90Pt Rides |
Number of rides scoring 90 points or above |
Download data: BullRiders.csv
Bull’s Data: Variable Descriptions
Variable | Description |
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Bull |
Name of the bull |
World Champ Avg Score |
Average score of the bull at world championship events |
Events |
Number of events the bull participated in |
Ridden |
Number of times the bull was successfully ridden |
Outs |
Number of times the bull was scheduled to be ridden |
Rides |
Number of successful rides on the bull |
Buckoffs |
Number of unsuccessful rides on the bull |
Avg BullScore |
Average score for successful rides on the bull |
Highest BullScore |
Highest score achieved by a rider on this bull |
Avg Buckoff Time |
Average time a rider spends on the bull before bucking off |
45Pt Rides |
Number of rides scoring 45 points or above on this bull |
Download data: Bulls.csv