Description
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) followed by a section on other sports and general statistical design and analysis issues that are common to all sports. This handbook has the potential to become the standard reference for obtaining the necessary background to conduct serious statistical analyses for sports applications and to appreciate scholarly work in this expanding area.
Table of Contents
Baseball
Evaluation of Batters and Base Runners
Ben Baumer, Pamela Badian-Pessot
Using Publicly Available Baseball Data to Measure and Evaluate Pitching Performance
Carson Sievert, Brian Mills
Defensive Evaluation
Mitchell Lichtman
Situational Statistics, Clutch Hitting, and Streakiness
Jim Albert
American Football
Estimating Team Strength in the NFL
Mark Glickman, Hal Stern
Forecasting the Performance of College Prospects Selected in the National Football League Draft
Julian Wolfson, Vittorio Addona
Evaluation of Quarterbacks and Kickers
. Drew Pasteur, John A. David
Situational Success: Evaluating Decision-Making in Football
Keith Goldner
Basketball
Probability Models for Streak Shooting
James Lackritz
Possession-based Player Performance Analysis in Basketball
Jeremias Engelmann
Optimal Strategy in Basketball
Brian Skinner, Matthew Goldman
Studying Basketball through the Lens of Player Tracking Data
Luke Bornn, Daniel Cervone, Alexander Franks, Andrew Miller
Hockey
Poisson/Exponential Models for Scoring in Ice Hockey
Andrew Thomas
Hockey Performance via Regularized Logistic Regression
Robert Gramacy, Matt Taddy, Sen Tian
Statistical Evaluation of Ice Hockey Goaltending
Michael Schuckers
Educated Guesswork - Drafting in the National Hockey League
Peter Tingling
Soccer
Models for outcomes of soccer matches
Phil Scarf, Jose Rangel Sellitti Jr
Rating of team abilities in soccer
Ruud H. Koning
Player ratings in soccer
Ian G. McHale, Samuel D. Relton
Effectiveness of in-season coach dismissal
Lucas M. Besters, Jan C. van Ours, Martin A. van Tuijl
Referee bias in football
Babatunde Buraimo, Dirk Semmelroth, Rob Simmons
Other sports
Golf Analytics: Developments in Performance Measurement and Handicapping
William Hurley, Mark Broadie
Research Directions in Cricket
Tim Swartz
Performance development at the Olympic Games
Elmer Sterken
