Mathletics : : How Gamblers, Managers, and Fans Use Mathematics in Sports, Second Edition / / Scott Nestler, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Wayne L. Winston.

How to use math to improve performance and predict outcomes in professional sportsMathletics 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 en...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Part I. Baseball --   |t 1. Baseball’s Pythagorean Theorem --   |t 2. Who Had a Better Year: Mike Trout or Kris Bryant? --   |t 3. Evaluating Hitters by Linear Weights --   |t 4. Evaluating Hitters by Monte Carlo Simulation --   |t 5. Evaluating Baseball Pitchers, Forecasting Future Pitcher Performance, and an Introduction to Statcast --   |t 6. Baseball Decision Making --   |t 7. Evaluating Fielders --   |t 8. Win Probability Added (WPA) --   |t 9. Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and Player Salaries --   |t 10. Park Factors --   |t 11. Streakiness in Sports --   |t 12. The Platoon Effect --   |t 13. Was Tony Perez a Great Clutch Hitter? --   |t 14. Pitch Count, Pitcher Effectiveness, and PITCHf/x Data --   |t 15. Would Ted Williams Hit .406 today? --   |t 16. Was Joe DiMaggio’s 56-Game Hitting Streak the Greatest Sports Record of All Time? --   |t 17. Projecting Major League Performance --   |t Part II. Football --   |t 18. What Makes NFL Teams Win? --   |t 19. Who’s Better: Brady or Rodgers? --   |t 20. Football States and Values --   |t 21. Football Decision Making 101 --   |t 22. If Passing Is Better than Running, Why Don’t Teams Always Pass? --   |t 23. Should We Go for a One-Point or a Two-Point Conversion? --   |t 24. To Give Up the Ball Is Better than to Receive: The Case of College Football Overtime --   |t 25. Has the NFL Finally Gotten the OT Rules Right? --   |t 26. How Valuable Are NFL Draft Picks? --   |t 27. Player Tracking Data in the NFL --   |t Part III. Basketball --   |t 28. Basketball Statistics 101: The Four Factor Model --   |t 29. Linear Weights for Evaluating NBA Players --   |t 30. Adjusted +/− Player Ratings --   |t 31. ESPN RPM and FiveThirtyEight RAPTOR Ratings --   |t 32. NBA Lineup Analysis --   |t 33. Analyzing Team and Individual Matchups --   |t 34. NBA Salaries and the Value of a Draft Pick --   |t 35. Are NBA Officials Prejudiced? --   |t 36. Pick-n- Rolling to Win, the Death of Post Ups and Isos --   |t 37. SportVU, Second Spectrum, and the Spatial Basketball Data Revolution --   |t 38. In-Game Basketball Decision Making --   |t Part IV. Other Sports --   |t 39. Soccer Analytics --   |t 40. Hockey Analytics --   |t 41. Volleyball Analytics --   |t 42. Golf Analytics --   |t 43. Analytics and Cyber Athletes: The Era of e-Sports --   |t Part V. Sports Gambling --   |t 44. Sports Gambling 101 --   |t 45. Freakonomics Meets the Bookmaker --   |t 46. Rating Sports Teams --   |t 47. From Point Ratings to Probabilities --   |t 48. The NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) --   |t 49. Optimal Money Management: The Kelley Growth Criterion --   |t 50. Calcuttas --   |t Part VI. Methods and Miscellaneous --   |t 51. How to Work with Data Sources: Collecting and Visualizing Data --   |t 52. Assessing Players with Limited Data: The Bayesian Approach --   |t 53. Finding Latent Patterns through Matrix Factorization --   |t 54. Network Analysis in Sports --   |t 55. Elo Ratings --   |t 56. Comparing Players from Different Eras --   |t 57. Does Fatigue Make Cowards of Us All? The Case of NBA Back-to- Back Games and NFL Bye Weeks --   |t 58. The College Football Playoff --   |t 59. Quantifying Sports Collapses --   |t 60. Daily Fantasy Sports --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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