Mathletics : how gamblers, managers, and sports enthusiasts use mathematics in baseball, basketball, and football / / Wayne L. Winston |
Autore | Winston Wayne L. |
Edizione | [With a New epilogue by the author] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 pages) |
Disciplina | 796.0151 |
Soggetto topico |
Sports - Mathematics
Sports -- Mathematics Social Sciences Recreation & Sports |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-41178-4
9786613411785 1-4008-4207-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Part 1: Baseball -- 1: Baseball's Pythagorean Theorem -- 2: Who had a better year, Nomar Garciaparra or Ichiro Suzuki? -- Runs-created approach -- 3: Evaluating hitters by linear weights -- 4: Evaluating hitters by Monte Carlo simulation -- 5: Evaluating baseball pitchers and forecasting future pitcher performance -- 6: Baseball decision-making -- 7: Evaluating fielders -- Sabermetrics' Last Frontier -- 8: Player win averages -- 9: Value of replacement players -- Evaluating trades and fair salary -- 10: Park factors -- 11: Streakiness in sports -- 12: Platoon effect -- 13: Was Tony Perez a great clutch hitter? -- 14: Pitch count and pitcher effectiveness -- 15: Would Ted Williams hit 406 today? -- 16: Was Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak the greatest sports record of all time? -- 17: Major league equivalents -- Part 2: Football -- 18: What makes NFL teams win? -- 19: Who's better, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning? -- 20: Football states and values -- 21: Football decision-making 101 -- 22: State and value analysis of the 2006 Super Bowl Champion Colts -- 23: If passing is better than running, why don't teams always pass? -- 24: Should we go for a one- point or two-point conversion? -- 25: To give up the ball is better than to receive -- Case of college football overtime -- 26: Why is the NFL's overtime system fatally flawed? -- 27: How valuable are high draft picks in the NFL? -- Part 3: Basketball -- 28: Basketball statistics 101 -- Four-factor model -- 29: Linear weights for evaluating NBA players -- 30: Adjusted +/- player ratings -- 31: NBA lineup analysis -- 32: Analyzing team and individual matchups -- 33: NBA players' salaries and the draft -- 34: Are NBA officials prejudiced? -- 35: Are college basketball games fixed? -- 36: Did Tim Donaghy fix NBA games? -- 37: End-game basketball strategy -- Part 4: Playing With Money, And Other Topics For Serious Sports Fans -- 38: Sports gambling 101 -- 39: Freakonomics meets the bookmaker -- 40: Rating sports teams -- 41: Which league has greater parity, the NFL or the NBA? -- 42: Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) -- 43: From point ratings to probabilities -- 44: Optimal money management -- Kelly growth criteria -- 45: Ranking great sports collapses -- 46: Can money buy success? -- 47: Does Joey Crawford hate the Spurs? -- 48: Does fatigue make cowards of us all? -- Case of NBA back-to-back games and NFL bye weeks -- 49: Can the bowl championship series be saved? -- 50: Comparing players from different eras -- 51: Conclusions -- Index of databases -- Annotated bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461264703321 |
Winston Wayne L. | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sports math : an introductory course in the mathematics of sports science and sports analytics / / Roland B. Minton, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, USA |
Autore | Minton Roland B. <1956-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, Florida : , : CRC Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations, photographs, tables |
Disciplina | 796.0151 |
Collana | Textbooks in Mathematics |
Soggetto topico | Sports - Mathematics |
ISBN |
1-4987-0632-0
1-315-37160-X 1-4987-0629-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Projectile motion -- 2. Rotational motion -- 3. Sports illusions -- 4. Collisions -- 5. Ratings systems -- 6. Voting systems -- 7. Saber- and other metrics -- 8. Randomness in sports -- 9. Sports strategies -- 10. Big data and beyond. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910149367803321 |
Minton Roland B. <1956-, > | ||
Boca Raton, Florida : , : CRC Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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