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X Games in Mathematics: Sports Training That Counts!

By Timothy P Chartier

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Year
2020
ISBN
2020051836, 9789811223839, 9789811224874, 9789811223846, 9789811223853, 9811223831
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18528489 bytes)
Series
Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond
Pages
234\253
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2021-10-20 04:25:45

Description

Sports analytics has gathered tremendous momentum as one of the most dynamic fields. Diving deep into the numbers of sports can be game changing or simply a fun exercise for fans. How do you get in the game with numbers? What questions can be explored? What actionable insights can be gleaned?Do you like sports? This book will detail ways to analyze athletics to gain insight that can otherwise be obscured. Like math? You'll find many mathematical topics not involving sports. You'll also see how sports analytics can train you broadly in mathematics.From coaching at the highest levels to national media broadcasts, analytics are becoming increasingly indispensable. Dive into the numbers behind soccer to basketball to baseball to boxing to swimming, dive into the numbers. Learn how to get in the game with sports and mathematics. Contents Preface About the Author Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Game On! 1.1. Numeric Eyes 1.2. Story Behind the Numbers 1.3. LeBron’s Sharp Mathematical Eye 1.4. Zero Impossibility 1.5. Baseball’s 100 Year Error 1.6. The 64 = 65 Fib Chapter 2. Trick Plays 2.1. Mathematical Magic 2.2. Paradoxical Insight 2.3. Disappearing Dissection 2.4. Footnotably Perfect Chapter 3. Finding Hall of Famers 3.1. Finding the Oddball 3.2. Spatial Difference 3.3. Best Matches 3.4. Finding Closest Musicals 3.5. We are the Champions 3.6. Image Detection 3.7. A Bit of Pythagorean History Chapter 4. Fan Excitement 4.1. Intricate Images 4.2. Math of the Instagram Egg 4.3. Not So Fast Chapter 5. Predicting the Future 5.1. Pythagoras’ Crystal Ball 5.2. Lies and Correlations 5.3. Regress to a New World Record 5.4. Google’s Billion-Dollar Ranking Chapter 6. Your Number One 6.1. Winning Percentage 6.2. All About Wins and Losses 6.3. Get to the Point 6.4. Not Just Another Win 6.5. Rating Madness Chapter 7. Pigeonholing an Athlete 7.1. Knowing Two Needles are in a Haystack 7.2. Birthday Buddies 7.3. Pigeonholed Record Chapter 8. Being Average 8.1. Mean About Barry Sanders 8.2. Million-Dollar Pay 8.3. Eyeing a Black and White Image 8.4. Typewriter Artistry 8.5. Colorful Math Mosaics Chapter 9. Games of Chance 9.1. Messi Calculation 9.2. Flipped Out Calculation 9.3. Math Pub Darts 9.4. Klutzy Math 9.5. Super Maddening Predictions Chapter 10. Sporting Lessons 10.1. Step into the Unknown 10.2. What’s Your Problem? 10.3. To Err is to Learn 10.4. Embracing Imperfection 10.5. Dealing with Enormity 10.6. Get Graphic 10.7. A Bit of Humanity in Mathematics Chapter 11. Thinking in Angles 11.1. Polar Position 11.2. Angling an MLB Ballpark 11.3. Global Projection Chapter 12. Calculus —Just Do It! 12.1. Calculus of Usain Bolt 12.2. Steeler Integration — Just Do It 12.3. Simulated Calculus 12.4. Free Fall in the Movies 12.5. Predicting a Soccer Ball’s Flight 12.6. Look like a Calculus Genius Chapter 13. Passing Secret Notes 13.1. Cryptic Sidelines 13.2. Caesar’s Mathematics 13.3. More Advanced Cryptography Chapter 14. Measuring the Probable 14.1. Improbable Perfection 14.2. Yard by Yard in the NFL 14.3. To Swing or Not in Mudville’s 14.4. Probable Super Bowl Score Chapter 15. Robot Reporters 15.1. Automated Storytelling 15.2. Going Ape on a Typewriter 15.3. Computational Shakespeare 15.4. Mathematical Love Poem Chapter 16. It’s Only a Game 16.1. Die-ing to Play Baseball 16.2. A Winning Fib 16.3. Dodgeball on Paper 16.4. Dodging Infinity Chapter 17. Playing in a Higher Dimension 17.1. Managing the MLB in 13 Dimensions 17.2. Seeing 3D Two Dimensionally 17.3. Seeing a 4D Cube 17.4. Understanding a 4D World 17.5. Close but in a Higher Dimension Chapter 18. Tied in Knots 18.1. Bendable Alphabet 18.2. Hand-to-Hand Mathematics 18.3. Flexible Thinking in 3D 18.4. Flexing Data Chapter 19. More Sporting Lessons 19.1. Unknown until Known 19.2. Sick of Data 19.3. Searching the Signal 19.4. Analytics Antenna 19.5. Consumable Analytics 19.6. Gaming the System 19.7. Coachable Results Chapter 20. Getting in the Game Bibliography Index

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