Freshly Printed - allow 10 days lead
Couldn't load pickup availability
Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy
Provides underlying mathematical and statistical ingredients and a sound modeling foundation to develop quantitative sports models and applications.
Robert Kissell (Author), James Poserina (Author)
9780128051634
Hardback, published 10 April 2017
352 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.69 kg
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. How They Play the Game2. Regression Models3. Probability Models4. Advanced Math and Statistics5. Sports Prediction Models6. Football - NFL7. Basketball - NBA8. Hockey - NHL9. Soccer - MLS10. Baseball - MLB11. Statistics in Baseball12. Fantasy Sports Models13. Advanced Modeling Techniques
Subject Areas: Probability & statistics [PBT], Mathematics [PB]
