Stats 50: Mathematics of Sports
Spring 2019

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Omnisport

Papers

• David Frank Percy (2015) "Strategy selection and outcome prediction in sport using dynamic learning for stochastic processes" Journal of the Operational Research Society 66:11, 1840-1849

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Baseball

Books

• "The Book: Playing The Percentages In Baseball" by Tango, Lichtman and Dolphin
• "Analyzing Baseball Data with R" by Marchi and Albert
• "Baseball Between the Numbers" by Baseball Prospectus

Websites

• FanGraphs
• Baseball Prospectus
• Beyond the Box Score

Podcasts

• Effectively Wild
• FanGraphs Audio
• Beyond the Box Score

Events

• SABR Analytics Conference
• Saberseminar
• Baseball Hack Day

Papers

• Jensen ST, Shirley KE and Wyner AJ (2009) "Bayesball: A Bayesian hierarchical model for evaluating fielding in Major League Baseball" The Annals of Applied Statistics 3(2), 491-520
• Baumer BS, Jensen ST and Matthews GJ (2015) "openWAR: An open source system for evaluating overall player performance in Major League Baseball"Journal of Analysis in Sports 11(2), 69-84

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Basketball

Books

• "Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis" by Dean Oliver

Websites

• Association for Professional Basketball Research
• Nylon Calculus

Events

• UNC Basketball Analytics Summit

Papers

• Cervone D, D'Amour A, Bornn L and Goldsberry K (2014) "POINTWISE: Predicting points and valuing decisions in real time with NBA optical tracking data" Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 8
• Franks A, Miller A, Bornn L and Goldsberry K (2015) "Characterizing the spatial structure of defensive skill in professional basketball" The Annals of Applied Statistics 9(1), 94-121
• Sailofsky, Daniel (2018) "Drafting Errors and Decision Making Theory in the NBA Draft" Master of Arts Thesis Brock University

Github repositories

• 2016 NBA raw SportVU game logs
• Scraping NBA Player Tracking Data in R (and Python)
• Scraping NBA data from ESPN
• BallR: Interactive NBA Shot Charts with R and Shiny

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Football

Data

• 2013-2018 NFL play-by-play data
• 2002-2012 NFL play-by-play data

Websites

• Advanced Football Analytics
• Code and Football

Podcasts

• Advanced Football Analytics

Papers

• Romer D (2006) "Do firms maximize? Evidence from professional football" Journal of Political Economy 114(2), 340-365

Github repositories

• API to retrieve and read NFL Game Center JSON data
• A library to manage and update NFL data in a relational database

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Soccer

Data

• Football-Data.co.uk (game-by-game results)

Websites

• Analytics FC
• StatsBomb
• American Soccer Analysis

Podcasts

• Analytics FC
• StatsBomb
• American Soccer Analysis