The Downtown Soccer Club has boys and girls travel soccer teams at all age levels up to 18 years old. The club has been successful and grown in popularity over the years; however, an obstacle to its continued growth is a shortage of practice and game soccer fields in the area. The club has tried to make a case to the town for more soccer fields to accommodate the increasing number of kids who want to play on a club travel team. The number of kids who have played soccer on a club team, and the town€™s population, for the last 10 years is as follows.

The soccer club wants to develop a forecasting model to demonstrate to the town its expected growth in the future.
a. Develop a linear trend line forecast to predict the number of soccer players the club can expect next year.
b. The town planning department has told the soccer club that the town expects to grow to a population of 39,300 by next year and to 40,000 in five years. Develop a linear regression model using the town€™s population as a predictor of the number of club soccer players and compare this forecasting model to the one developed in part (a).Which forecasting model should the club use to support its request for new fields?

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Club Soccer Town Year Players Population 246 38,060 235 2 38,021 3 259 38,110 261 38,125 276 38,240 290 38,231 7 327 38,306 318 38,477 335 38,506 9. 331 38,583 10 339 38,609 351 38,745 12 13 366 39,003 39,062 14 401 15 427 39,114 4)