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Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy

by Robert Kissell

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A quantitative toolkit for analyzing sports performance

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A quantitative toolkit for analyzing sports performance

Robert Kissell organizes sports analysis around practical statistical questions: how to rank teams, estimate win probabilities and victory margins, and identify the variables most associated with team and player performance. The book also extends these methods to fantasy competitions, connecting mathematical models with common decisions in sports evaluation. A substantial thread concerns the ranking systems used around postseason selection, explaining how such models can be examined rather than treated as opaque calculations. Alongside model-building, it addresses statistical procedures for testing a model’s accuracy, framing sports prediction as a process that can be measured, compared, and checked.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students exploring probability, statistics, and quantitative sports analysis
  • Sports professionals seeking frameworks for evaluating teams and players
  • Fantasy sports participants interested in model-based analysis

Themes

Sports analyticsProbability and predictionTeam rankingsPerformance evaluationFantasy sports

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Book overview

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.

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