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Mathematics and sports [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joseph A. Gallian
| Mathematics and sports [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joseph A. Gallian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.], : Mathematical Association of America, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 796.02 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | GallianJoseph A |
| Collana | Dolciani mathematical expositions |
| Soggetto topico | Sports - Mathematics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61444-200-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; I. Baseball. Sabermetrics : the past, the present, and the future / Jim Albert -- Surprising streaks and playoff parity : probability problems in a sports context / Rick Cleary -- Did humidifying the baseball decrease the number of homers at Coors Field? / Howard Penn -- Streaking : finding the probability for a batting streak / Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le -- ; II. Basketball. Bracketology : how can math help? / Tim Chartier [and others] -- Down 4 with a minute to go / G. Edgar Parker -- Jump shot mathematics / Howard Penn -- ; III. Football. How deep is your playbook? / Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn -- A look at overtime in the NFL / Chris Jones -- Extending the Colley method to generate predictive football rankings / R. Drew Pasteur -- When perfect isn't good enough : retrodictive rankings in college football / R. Drew Pasteur -- ; IV. Golf. The science of the drive / Douglas N. Arnold -- Is Tiger Woods a winner? / Scott M. Berry -- G.H. Hardy's golfing adventure / Roland Minton -- Tigermetrics / Roland Minton -- ; V. NASCAR. Can mathematics make a difference? Exploring tire troubles in NASCAR / Cheryll E. Crowe -- ; VI. Scheduling. Scheduling a tournament / Dalibor Froncek -- ; VII. Soccer -- Bending a soccer ball with math / Tim Chartier -- ; VIII. Tennis. Teaching mathematics and statistics using tennis / Reza Noubary -- Percentage play in tennis / G. Edgar Parker -- ; IX. Track and field. The effects of wind and altitude in the 400m sprint with various IAAF track geometries / Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz -- Mathematical ranking of the Division III track and field conferences / Chris Fisette -- What is the speed limit for men's 100 meter dash / Reza Noubary -- May the best team win : determining the winner of a cross country race / Stephen Szydlik -- Biomechanics of running and walking / Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461930403321 |
| [Washington, D.C.], : Mathematical Association of America, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mathematics and sports / / edited by Joseph A. Gallian [[electronic resource]]
| Mathematics and sports / / edited by Joseph A. Gallian [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 796.02 |
| Collana |
Dolciani Mathematical Expositions
Dolciani mathematical expositions |
| Soggetto topico | Sports - Mathematics |
| ISBN | 1-61444-200-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; I. Baseball. Sabermetrics : the past, the present, and the future / Jim Albert -- Surprising streaks and playoff parity : probability problems in a sports context / Rick Cleary -- Did humidifying the baseball decrease the number of homers at Coors Field? / Howard Penn -- Streaking : finding the probability for a batting streak / Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le -- ; II. Basketball. Bracketology : how can math help? / Tim Chartier [and others] -- Down 4 with a minute to go / G. Edgar Parker -- Jump shot mathematics / Howard Penn -- ; III. Football. How deep is your playbook? / Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn -- A look at overtime in the NFL / Chris Jones -- Extending the Colley method to generate predictive football rankings / R. Drew Pasteur -- When perfect isn't good enough : retrodictive rankings in college football / R. Drew Pasteur -- ; IV. Golf. The science of the drive / Douglas N. Arnold -- Is Tiger Woods a winner? / Scott M. Berry -- G.H. Hardy's golfing adventure / Roland Minton -- Tigermetrics / Roland Minton -- ; V. NASCAR. Can mathematics make a difference? Exploring tire troubles in NASCAR / Cheryll E. Crowe -- ; VI. Scheduling. Scheduling a tournament / Dalibor Froncek -- ; VII. Soccer -- Bending a soccer ball with math / Tim Chartier -- ; VIII. Tennis. Teaching mathematics and statistics using tennis / Reza Noubary -- Percentage play in tennis / G. Edgar Parker -- ; IX. Track and field. The effects of wind and altitude in the 400m sprint with various IAAF track geometries / Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz -- Mathematical ranking of the Division III track and field conferences / Chris Fisette -- What is the speed limit for men's 100 meter dash / Reza Noubary -- May the best team win : determining the winner of a cross country race / Stephen Szydlik -- Biomechanics of running and walking / Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Mathematics & Sports |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790363703321 |
| Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mathematics and sports / / edited by Joseph A. Gallian [[electronic resource]]
| Mathematics and sports / / edited by Joseph A. Gallian [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 796.02 |
| Collana |
Dolciani Mathematical Expositions
Dolciani mathematical expositions |
| Soggetto topico | Sports - Mathematics |
| ISBN | 1-61444-200-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; I. Baseball. Sabermetrics : the past, the present, and the future / Jim Albert -- Surprising streaks and playoff parity : probability problems in a sports context / Rick Cleary -- Did humidifying the baseball decrease the number of homers at Coors Field? / Howard Penn -- Streaking : finding the probability for a batting streak / Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le -- ; II. Basketball. Bracketology : how can math help? / Tim Chartier [and others] -- Down 4 with a minute to go / G. Edgar Parker -- Jump shot mathematics / Howard Penn -- ; III. Football. How deep is your playbook? / Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn -- A look at overtime in the NFL / Chris Jones -- Extending the Colley method to generate predictive football rankings / R. Drew Pasteur -- When perfect isn't good enough : retrodictive rankings in college football / R. Drew Pasteur -- ; IV. Golf. The science of the drive / Douglas N. Arnold -- Is Tiger Woods a winner? / Scott M. Berry -- G.H. Hardy's golfing adventure / Roland Minton -- Tigermetrics / Roland Minton -- ; V. NASCAR. Can mathematics make a difference? Exploring tire troubles in NASCAR / Cheryll E. Crowe -- ; VI. Scheduling. Scheduling a tournament / Dalibor Froncek -- ; VII. Soccer -- Bending a soccer ball with math / Tim Chartier -- ; VIII. Tennis. Teaching mathematics and statistics using tennis / Reza Noubary -- Percentage play in tennis / G. Edgar Parker -- ; IX. Track and field. The effects of wind and altitude in the 400m sprint with various IAAF track geometries / Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz -- Mathematical ranking of the Division III track and field conferences / Chris Fisette -- What is the speed limit for men's 100 meter dash / Reza Noubary -- May the best team win : determining the winner of a cross country race / Stephen Szydlik -- Biomechanics of running and walking / Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Mathematics & Sports |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812076303321 |
| Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mathletics : how gamblers, managers, and sports enthusiasts use mathematics in baseball, basketball, and football / / Wayne L. Winston
| 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.
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Optimal sports math and statistics / / Robert Kissell and James Poserina
| Optimal sports math and statistics / / Robert Kissell and James Poserina |
| Autore | Kissell Robert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Academic Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 796.021 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sports - Statistical methods
Sports - Mathematical models Sports Sports - Mathematics |
| ISBN | 0-12-805293-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910583336503321 |
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Kissell Robert
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| London, England : , : Academic Press, , 2017 | ||
| 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
| 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 |
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Minton Roland B. <1956-, >
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| Boca Raton, Florida : , : CRC Press, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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