Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy (Hardcover)

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: Accurately rank sports teams Compute winning probability Calculate expected victory margin Determine the set of factors that are most predictive of team and player performance 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.

General

Imprint:	Academic Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Robert Kissell • James Poserina
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-12-805163-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Promotions
LSN:	0-12-805163-9
Barcode:	9780128051634

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