Mathletics reveals the mathematical methods top coaches and managers use to evaluate players and improve team performance and gives math enthusiasts the practical skills they need to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of their favorite sports―and maybe even gain the outside edge to winning bets. This second edition features new data, new players and teams, and new chapters on soccer, …

One of the greatest changes in the sports world in the past 20 years has been the use of mathematical methods to analyze performances, recognize trends and patterns, and predict results. Analytic Methods in Sports: Using Mathematics and Statistics to Understand Data from Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Other Sports provides a concise yet thorough introduction to the analytic and statistical …

The hidden influences behind how sports are played and games are won.

While an industry has developed based on statistical analysis services for any given sport, or even for betting behavior analysis on these sports, no research-level book has considered the subject in any detail until now.

This book walks you step by step through 4 winning computer models in professional sports.

A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers.

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool – analytics – is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.

What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking. The book offers: Fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the “data-analytic thinking” necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.

Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin analyze when a strategy is a good idea and when it’s a bad idea, and how to more closely watch the inside the game.

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger all by the time he was thirty. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver is one of the nation’s most influential political forecasters.

There is one thing about gambling that everyone knows: the house always wins. Indeed, for the past 500 years, gamblers led by mathematicians and scientists have been trying to figure out how to turn the tables on the house and pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the …

Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Winning the Game with Methods and Models: To build winning teams and successful sports businesses, guide your decisions with data.

How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

The science of assessing performance, predicting future outcomes, interpreting statistical models, and market value of athletes. View