Handbook of statistical methods and analyses in sports / Jim Albert, Mark Glickman, Tim B. Swartz., Ruud H. Koning.
This handbook will provide both overviews of statistical methods in sports and in-depth treatment of critical problems and challenges confronting statistical research in sports. The material in the handbook will be organized by major sport (baseball, football, hockey, basketball, and soccer) followe...
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CRC Press, Taylor & Francis,
2017.
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| Series: | Chapman & Hall/CRC handbooks of modern statistical methods.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1: Evaluation of Batters and Base Runners; 2: Using Publicly Available Baseball Data to Measure and Evaluate Pitching Performance; 3: Defensive Evaluation; 4: Situational Statistics, Clutch Hitting, and Streakiness; 5: Estimating Team Strength in the NFL; 6: Forecasting the Performance of College Prospects Selected in the National Football League Draft; 7: Evaluation of Quarterbacks and Kickers; 8: Situational Success: Evaluating Decision-Making in Football; 9: Probability Models for Streak Shooting.
- 10: Possession-Based Player Performance Analysis in Basketball (Adjusted +/- and Related Concepts)11: Optimal Strategy in Basketball; 12: Studying Basketball through the Lens of Player Tracking Data; 13: Poisson/Exponential Models for Scoring in Ice Hockey; 14: Hockey Player Performance via Regularized Logistic Regression; 15: Statistical Evaluation of Ice Hockey Goaltending; 16: Educated Guesswork: Drafting in the National Hockey League; 17: Models for Outcomes of Soccer Matches; 18: Rating of Team Abilities in Soccer; 19: Player Ratings in Soccer.
- 20: Effectiveness of In-Season Coach Dismissal21: Referee Bias in Football; 22: Golf Analytics: Developments in Performance Measurement and Handicapping; 23: Research Directions in Cricket; 24: Performance Development at the Olympic Games; Index.