Rushing yardage for three Heisman Trophy candidates is given below. Which candidate is the most productive running back? How did you measure productivity? Candidates Hall Walker Dayne Rushing yards 2110 3623 6925 No. of carries 105 875 1186 No. of touchdowns 15 20 70

Answer:

Here we can measure productivity in multiple ways.

Method 1: We can consider productivity as direct measure of number of touchdowns. That Player would be most productive who has maximum number of touchdowns compared to other two players.

Method 2: Productivity in this case can also be defined as number of touchdowns per carry.

We will be using method 2 as it more accurate .

Productivity running back = No. of touchdown/ No.of carries

(i) Hall's Productivity => Productivity = 15/105 = 14.28%

(ii) Walker's Productivity => Productivity = 20/875 = 2.286%

(iii) Dayne's Productivity => Productivity = 70/1186 = 5.902%

Therefore, the candidate is the most productive running back is Hall with productivity of 14.28%