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       PROJECT 2:  THE NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE, page 2

As I did with the NHL study the focus will be on the position of the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars on the heliogram of each individual lacrosse player. The three planets move quickly around the Sun compared to the others. As the planets travel through the 12 sectors they frequently make distinctive patterns in the sky around the Sun.  I have analyzed the groupings and patterns that I have found in the heliograms of the players.

1. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SUN

The distribution of the Sun in the 12 sectors is seen below for the 285 players. Planet Earth is in the opposing sector to the Sun at all times; if the Sun is in sector 7, Earth is in sector 1. With perfect randomness operating, one would expect to find 24 players per sector.

This same information may be viewed in percentage of players in the following graph.

Peaks are seen in sectors 3 and 6 which each total 11% of the group. The fewest number of players are seen to have the Sun in sector 7 (Earth in sector 1) with only 5% of the group total.

2. MERCURY

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun which it orbits 4 times a year. It takes 88 days for Mercury to circle the Sun, by far the fastest of all the planets in our solar system.

Of the 285 professional lacrosse players in the study, 251 players, representing 88% of the total player pool were selected for the sector position of Mercury at the time of birth. Players born between January 1, 1970 through December 31, 1981 were used and during this period of time, Mercury completed 50 orbits of the Sun. Stated another way, during this time period Mercury was in each of the 12 sectors of the sky 50 times, spending varying amounts of time in each sector. The following data shows the number of players born with Mercury in each sector. Divide 251 players by 12 sectors and the result is 21 players per sector if perfect randomness is present. The actual results are shown below:

A problem arises however since Mercury does not spend an equal amount of time in each of the sectors due to its elliptical orbit. The number of our Earth days that Mercury spends in each of the sectors ranges from 4.5 days to 11 days. Clearly, this factor must be taken into account. The following table gives the corrected results for Mercury in the sectors.

Mercury is most frequently found in sectors 3, 8 and 9 among the 251 professional lacrosse players.

Mercury was found least frequently in sector  5 for these athletes. For details of the NHL Mercury study use the following link NHL Mercury .

In summary, sectors 3, 8 and 9 provide 32% of the NLL players in only 25% of the sectors.

3. VENUS

The planet Venus orbits the Sun every 225 Earth days giving it the second fastest orbital time after Mercury. Venus has an almost perfectly circular orbital path around the Sun. Venus and Mercury are both closer to the Sun than is the Earth.

The time period used for the sector placement of Venus is from January 1, 1970 until April 22, 1982, representing 253 (89%) of the 285 professional players in the sport. During this time period Venus completed 20 orbits of the Sun, spending equal amounts of time in each sector. The sector count for Venus is shown below:

The same information is shown below in graphic format:

The total number of players used for the placement of Venus is 253. Since Venus spends an equal amount of time in each sector, divide 253 by 12 (sectors) and the result is 21 players per sector. Obviously, this is not what one sees in the above graph. There is a predominance of Venus in sectors 1 and 6 and also in 2 and 8 in the heliograms of NLL players. These four sectors account for 45% of the NLL player total in 33% of the sectors.

In the study of Venus in the sectors of NHL players we find the planet most frequently in sectors 1, 6, 9, and 11, especially 6 and 11. Of the total number of NHL players almost 41% of them had Venus in sectors 1, 6, 9 or 11. The least frequent locations of Venus in the NHL players were in sectors 2, 3 and 5.

4. MARS

The solar orbit of Mars is distinctly elliptical. As was seen in the NHL project, Mars spends the least amount of time in sector 1 (49 days) and the most time in sectors 5 and 6 (68 days each). The results for Mars in the NLL study is shown in the table below. The percentages have been corrected to compensate for the differing number of days Mars spends in each sector as it orbits the Sun.

The highest percentage of players is found in sector 12 and the least percentage is found in sector 8. One-third of the players are found in one-quarter of the sectors (1, 11 and 12).

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