Sports Analytics and Data Science: Winning the Game with Methods and Models

Index

A

adjacency matrix, 261

advertising research, 229

agent, 261

agent-based modeling, 261

Akaike information criterion (AIC), 54

algebraic modeling system, 145, 261

Apache Hadoop, see Hadoop

Apache Lucene, see Lucene

Apache Software Foundation, 261

Apache Spark, see Spark

API, see application programming interface

application programming interface, 175, 178, 179, 261

ARPANET, 175, 262

ASP, 262

association rules, 262

asynchronous focus group, see blog

B

bandwidth, 262

baseball term

“out”, 289

“play ball”, 291

“safe”, 293

“time”, 296

ahead in the count, 279

All Star Game, 279

American League, 279

around the horn, 279

at bats (AB), 279

away team, 279

bailing out, 279

balk, 279

ball, 280

ban on women, 280

base, 280

base coach, 280

base hit,