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Table 3 Tempo summary statistics for each sport, along with simple derived values for the expected number of events per game and seconds between events

From: Scoring dynamics across professional team sports: tempo, balance and predictability

Sport	$\hat{λ}$ [events/s]	T [s]	$\hat{λ} T$ [events/game]	$1 / \hat{λ}$ [s/event]
NFL	0.00204(1)	3600	7.34	490.2
CFB	0.00230(1)	3600	8.28	434.8
NHL	0.00106(1)	3600	3.81	943.4
NBA	0.03194(5)	2880	91.99	31.3

Parenthetical values indicate standard uncertainty in the final digit.

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