ABSTRACT This study uses ten years of football team data from NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) institutions to explore the academic impact of intercollegiate football playoff participation. Fixed effects regression analyses of panel data spanning the 2003–04 to 2013–14 academic years show participation in three weeks of postseason play has a negative effect on fall team GPA, though an extremely small sample size elicits concerns regarding generalizability. In contrast, analyses of Academic Progress Rate (APR), the NCAA metric for student-athlete team academic success, reveals teams participating in three weeks of playoffs contention have higher APR scores than teams not competing. The study also compares results produced through Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and fixed effects regression analyses.

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参加大学橄榄球季后赛的学术影响

摘要本研究使用了来自NCAA第一类足球冠军分区（FCS）机构的十年橄榄球队数据，以探讨大学生之间参加季后赛的学术影响。对2003-04至2013-14学年的面板数据进行的固定效应回归分析显示，参加季后赛三周对秋季队的GPA产生负面影响，尽管样本量极小，引发了对通用性的担忧。相比之下，对学生运动员团队学术成就的NCAA指标“学术进步率”（APR）的分析显示，参加季后赛三周竞赛的团队的APR得分要高于没有竞争的团队。该研究还比较了通过普通最小二乘（OLS）和固定效应回归分析得出的结果。