Optimal Sports, Math, Statistics, And Fantasy

__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.

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.

• Statistical approaches to predict winning team, probabilities, and victory margin
• Procedures to evaluate the accuracy of different models
• Detailed analysis of how mathematics and statistics are used in a variety of different sports
• Advanced mathematical applications that can be applied to fantasy sports, player evaluation, salary negotiation, team selection, and Hall of Fame determination

Content: Front-matter,Copyright,Biographical InformationEntitled to full textChapter 1 - How They Play the Game, Pages 1-38 Chapter 2 - Regression Models, Pages 39-67 Chapter 3 - Probability Models, Pages 69-101 Chapter 4 - Advanced Math and Statistics, Pages 103-135 Chapter 5 - Sports Prediction Models, Pages 137-154 Chapter 6 - Football—NFL, Pages 155-179 Chapter 7 - Basketball—NBA, Pages 181-204 Chapter 8 - Hockey—NHL, Pages 205-227 Chapter 9 - Soccer—MLS, Pages 229-252 Chapter 10 - Baseball—MLB, Pages 253-276 Chapter 11 - Statistics in Baseball*, Pages 277-295 Chapter 12 - Fantasy Sports Models, Pages 297-315 Chapter 13 - Advanced Modeling Techniques, Pages 317-330 Index, Pages 331-342