Jim Albert / Jay Bennett / James J. Cochran (eds.)

Anthology of Statistics in Sports

Herausgeber: Albert, Jim; Cochran, James J; Bennett, Jay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The unlikely worlds of sports fans and statisticians collide in this interesting and accessible collection of previously published articles on the use of statistics to analyze sports, which the editors have thoughtfully culled from a variety of American Statistical Association (ASA) publications. Heavily weighted in the areas of competition (rating players and teams, evaluating strategies for victory), the articles vary in mathematical complexity, but most will be accessible to readers with a general knowledge of statistics. Newly written material from the editors and other notable contributors introduces each section of the book, and a chapter with suggestions on using the articles in the classroom is included. Organized by sport to make it easy for readers to find the papers in their particular areas of interest, 'Anthology of Statistics in Sports' contains separate sections devoted to the major North American team sports of baseball, football, basketball, and ice hockey. Two additional sections cover miscellaneous sports and more general issues related to sports and statistics. This book grew from the efforts of members of the ASA Section on 'Statistics in Sports', which is dedicated to promoting high professional standards in the application of statistics to sports and fostering statistical education in sports.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 217mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 791g
• ISBN-13: 9780898715873
• ISBN-10: 0898715873
• Artikelnr.: 20989214

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The use of sports in teaching statistics
Part I. Statistics in Football. 3. Introduction to the football articles
4. A geometry model for NFL field goal kickers
5. A state-space model for National Football League scores
6. Predictions for National Football League games via linear-model methodology
7. The best NFL Field goal kickers. are they lucky or good?
8. On the probability of winning a football game
Part II. Statistics in Baseball.. 9. Introduction to the baseball Articles
10. Exploring baseball Hitting Data. What About Those breakdown Statistics?
11. Did shoeless Joe Jackson Throw the 1919 World Series?
12. Player Game Percentage
13. Estimation with selected binomial Information or Do You Really Believe that Dave Winfield Is batting .471?
14. Baseball: Pitching No-Hitters
15. Answering Questions about baseball Using statistics
16. The Progress of the score During a Baseball Game
Part III. Statistics in Basketball: 17. Introduction to the Basketball Articles
18. Improved NCAA Basketball Tournament Modeling via Point Spread and Team strength Information
19. It's Okay to Believe in the 'hot hand'
20. More Probability models for the NCAA Regional basketball Tournaments
21. The Cold Facts About the 'hot hand' in basketball
22. Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in basketball
Part IV. Statistics in Ice Hockey: 23. Introduction to the Ice Hockey Articles
24. Statistical Methods for Rating College Hockey Teams
25. Overtime or shootout. Deciding Ties in Hockey
26. It Takes a Hot Goalie to Raise the Stanley Cup
Part V. Statistical Methodologies and Multiple Sports: 27. Introduction to the Methodologies and Multiple Sports Articles
28. Bridging Different Eras in sports
29. Data Analysis Using Stein's Estimator and Its Generalizations
30. Assigning Probabilities to the Outcomes of Multi-Entry Competitions
31. Basketball, Baseball, and the Null Hypothesis
32. Lessons from sports statistics
33. Can TQM Improve Athletic Performance?
34. A Brownian Motion Model for the Progress of sports scores
Part VI. Statistics in Miscellaneous Sports: 35. Introduction to the Miscellaneous Sports Articles
36. Shooting Darts
37. Drive for show and Putt for Dough
38. Adjusting Golf handicaps for the difficulty of the Course
39. Rating Skating
40. Modeling scores in the Premier League. is Manchester United really the Best?
41. Down to Ten. Estimating the effect of a Red Card in Soccer
42. Heavy Defeats in Tennis. Psychological Momentum or Random effect?
43. Who is the fastest Man in the World?
44. Resizing Triathlons for Fairness.