Book description
As any child with a baseball card intuitively knows, sports and statistics go hand-in-hand. Yet, the general media disdain the flood of sports statistics available today: sports are pure and analytic tools are not. Well, if the so-called purists find tools like baseball’s sabermetrics upsetting, then they’d better brace themselves for the new wave of data analytics.
In this O’Reilly report, Janine Barlow examines how advanced predictive analytics are impacting the world of sports—from the rise of tools such as Major League Baseball’s Statcast, which collects data on the movement of balls and players, to SportVU, which the National Basketball Association uses to collect spatial analysis data.
You’ll also learn:
- How "Dance Card" makes accurate predictions about NCAA’s "March Madness" tournament
- Why data is crumbling long-standing myths about performance in soccer
- How the National Football League is using wearable devices to collect vital health data about its players
It’s a new world in sports, where data analytics and related information technologies are changing the experience for teams, players, fans, and investors.
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Table of contents
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1. Data Analytics in Sports
- Predictive Analytics and the Secrets of the Dance Card
- Nostalgia, Statistics, and the Challenges of Motion Sensors
- The NBA: “A League Driven by Data”
- Using Data Analytics to Course-Correct
- Moving from Raw Data to Analytics
- Data in Soccer: Crumbling Long-Standing Myths About Performance
- Wearable Devices and the Future of Sports Analytics
- American Football and Strides in Technology
Product information
- Title: Data Analytics in Sports
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2015
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491927441
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