Sport Analytics: An Applied Introduction to How Numbers are Changing Sport

J.T. Wolohan
Jul 28, 2023
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Sport Analytics: An Applied Introduction to How Numbers are Changing Sport provides readers with an analytical foundation required to do sport analytics and an overview of the canonical methods in sport analytics.

To achieve the methods simultaneously, Sport Analytics introduces the most important in sport analytics and teaches the practical and theoretical considerations for these methods: from OPS, to DVOA, to weighted plus-minus and beyond. The text covers all four major American sports, soccer, individual sports and eSports.

Sport Analytics: An Applied Introduction to How Numbers are Changing Sport:

  • Is intended for undergraduate or introductory graduate level sport analytics students or a sport-specific supplement to the education of economics, data science, computer science, mathematics, or engineering students.

  • Is the only publication that discusses the metrics that are critical to an analytical understanding of contemporary sport.

  • Combines discussion of these metrics with practical examples in R of how to calculate these metrics, providing readers with valuable data analysis skills.

  • Emphasizes the metrics in context and teaches the game-theoretic aspects and backdrop of sport analytics—understanding sport analytics through the lens of decision making theory.

  • Is student friendly! The publication integrates objectives, case studies, review questions, programming exercises, key terms, and the source code repository for metrics covered in the book.

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