Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy provides the sports community—students, professionals, and casual sports fans—with the essential mathematics and statistics required to objectively analyze sports teams, evaluate player performance, and predict game outcomes. These techniques can also be applied to fantasy sports competitions.
Readers will learn how to:
Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy also illustrates modeling techniques that can be used to decode and demystify the mysterious computer ranking schemes that are often employed by post-season tournament selection committees in college and professional sports. These methods offer readers a verifiable and unbiased approach to evaluate and rank teams, and the proper statistical procedures to test and evaluate the accuracy of different models.
Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy delivers a proven best-in-class quantitative modeling framework with numerous applications throughout the sports world.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Biographical Information - p. ix 6. Chapter 1. How They Play the Game - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. Regression Models - p. 39 8. Chapter 3. Probability Models - p. 69 9. Chapter 4. Advanced Math and Statistics - p. 103 10. Chapter 5. Sports Prediction Models - p. 137 11. Chapter 6. Football—NFL - p. 155 12. Chapter 7. Basketball—NBA - p. 181 13. Chapter 8. Hockey—NHL - p. 205 14. Chapter 9. Soccer—MLS - p. 229 15. Chapter 10. Baseball—MLB - p. 253 16. Chapter 11. Statistics in Baseball - p. 277 17. Chapter 12. Fantasy Sports Models - p. 297 18. Chapter 13. Advanced Modeling Techniques - p. 317 19. Index - p. 331
Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy provides the sports community—students, professionals, and casual sports fans—with the essential mathematics and statistics required to objectively analyze sports teams, evaluate player performance, and predict game outcomes. These techniques can also be applied to fantasy sports competitions.
Readers will learn how to:
Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy also illustrates modeling techniques that can be used to decode and demystify the mysterious computer ranking schemes that are often employed by post-season tournament selection committees in college and professional sports. These methods offer readers a verifiable and unbiased approach to evaluate and rank teams, and the proper statistical procedures to test and evaluate the accuracy of different models.
Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy delivers a proven best-in-class quantitative modeling framework with numerous applications throughout the sports world.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Biographical Information - p. ix 6. Chapter 1. How They Play the Game - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. Regression Models - p. 39 8. Chapter 3. Probability Models - p. 69 9. Chapter 4. Advanced Math and Statistics - p. 103 10. Chapter 5. Sports Prediction Models - p. 137 11. Chapter 6. Football—NFL - p. 155 12. Chapter 7. Basketball—NBA - p. 181 13. Chapter 8. Hockey—NHL - p. 205 14. Chapter 9. Soccer—MLS - p. 229 15. Chapter 10. Baseball—MLB - p. 253 16. Chapter 11. Statistics in Baseball - p. 277 17. Chapter 12. Fantasy Sports Models - p. 297 18. Chapter 13. Advanced Modeling Techniques - p. 317 19. Index - p. 331
