August 2023
Beginner to intermediate
352 pages
8h 40m
English
Content preview from Football Analytics with Python & R
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Glossary
- air yards
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The distance traveled by the pass from the line of scrimmage to the intended receiver, whether or not the pass was complete.
- average depth of target (aDOT)
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The average air yards traveled on targeted passes for quarterbacks and targets for receivers.
- binomial
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A type of statistical distribution with a binary (0/1-type) response. Examples include wins/losses for a game or sacks/no-sacks from a play.
- bins
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The discrete categories of numbers used to summarize data in a histogram.
- book
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Short for sportsbook in football gambling. This is the person, group, casino, or other similar enterprise that takes wagers on sporting (and other) events.
- bounded
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Describes a number whose value is constrained by other values. For example, a percentage is bounded by 0% and 100%.
- boxplots
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A data visualization that uses a “box” to show the middle 50% of data and stems for the upper and lower quartiles. Commonly, outliers are plotted as dots. The plots are also known as box-and-whisker plots.
- Cheeseheads
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Fans of the Green Bay Packers. For example, Richard is a Cheesehead because he likes the Packers. Eric is not a fan of the Packers and is therefore not a Cheesehead.
- closing line
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The final price offered by a sportsbook before a game starts. In theory, this contains all the opinions, expressed through wagers, of all bettors who have enough influence to move the line into place.
- clustering
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A type of statistical method for dividing data points into similar groups (clusters ...
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