Statistics in Sports
Math 116
Brad Hartlaub
Spring 2016
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Statistics Clinic (Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 8:00 - 10:00 pm, in Hayes Hall 311)
Daily Agendas
- January 18
- January 20
- January 22
- January 25
- January 27
- January 29
- February 1
- February 3
- February 5 - Complete Chapter 5 and Quiz 1.
- February 8
- February 10
- February 12 - Complete Chapter 7 (Professor Milnikel) and Quiz 2.
- February 15
- February 17 - LAB DAY - Work on Projects and In Class Exercises
- February 19 - EDA Presentations
- Ryan Howard in St. Louis: Does the Slugger Have a Greater Ability at Busch Stadium versus Other NL Ballparks? - Evan Frazier and Matt Contreras
- Do NBA All-Stars see a change in ABILITY following an injury that causes them to miss 40+ games? - Ian Drummond, Teddy Farkas, Graeme Taylor
- February 22
- Does a higher fastball velocity correlate with more strikeouts? - Sam Clougher, Jon Epstein, and Alex Pinkus
- Do right handed hitters have an advantage when it comes to hitting home runs at Fenway Park? - Ian Burnette and Ian Edwards
- Performance of Home Country in the Olympics - Juliana Withers and Cayla Anderson
- February 24
- Money Talks? - Darius Loghman Adham, Jack Marino, and Mike Wakin
- The Best and Worst NBA Contracts - Tyler Kimble and Liam Ingoglia
- February 26
- Stephen Curry's impact on the Warriors - Skyler Blaxter, Rob Meagher, and Dom Rowley
- Do Defenses Win Super Bowls? - Ian Bell, Joseph Marabito, and Mike Itschner
- February 29 - Chapter 9 (Estimating Ability with Confidence Intervals)
- The Chip Kelly Experiment - Peter Doyla and Sam Keller
- March 2 - Review with Professor Milnikel
- March 4 - Exam 1
- March 21
- March 23 - Complete Chapter 11 (See Big12.R); R lab
- March 25 - R lab and modeling projects
- March 28 - Multiple Regression
- March 30 - Discussion of Class Exercises; Lab time for Projects
- April 1
- April 4
- Goalies as the Foundation - Sam Clougher, Alex Pinkus, and Jon Epstein
- College Football: High Budget, High Success? - Ian Bell, Skyler Blaxter, and Rob Meagher
- April 6
- Going for the Green (Jacket): Predicting the Masters - Juliana Withers and Cayla Anderson
- Marginal Win Utility in NHL Hockey - Graeme Taylor, Ian Burnette, and Ian Drummond
- April 8
- Predicting wins in MLB - Evan Frazier, Jack Marino, Mike Wakin
- Predicting wins in the NCAA tournament based on NCAA tournament results of the last 11 years - Darius Loghman-Adham, Liam Ingoglia, and Tyler Kimble
- April 11
- Comparing Productivity of NFL Draft Choices - Joeseph Marabito, Mike Itschner, and Dom Rowley
- Predicting wins in the NFL in the 2015 season - Matthew Contreas, Peter Dola, and Sam Keller
- April 13
- Predicting Olympic Track Medal Winners - Ian Edwards and Teddy Farkas
- April 15 - Begin work on statistical inference project
- April 18 - R Lab for Projects
- April 20 - R Lab for Projects
- April 22 - Guest Lecture by Russell Carleton - Class will be held in the Community Foundation Theater of Gund Gallery
- April 25 - Poster Session 1
- Does pitching matter? - Graeme Taylor and Ian Drummond
- Older hitters are declining but it's not because they can't stand the heat - Mike Itschner, Skyler Blaxter, and Joe Marabito
- The impact of wins, stadiums, & economies on ticket prices - Darius Loghman-Adham, Mike Wakin, and Jack Marino
- The new science of hitting - Ian Bell, Rob Meagher, Dom Rowley
- April 27 - Poster Session 2
- Performance, Return to Competition, and Reinjury After Tommy John Surgery in Major League Baseball Pitchers: A Review of 147 Cases - Sam Clougher, Jon Epstein, and Alex Pinkus
- Differences in Performances of elite ATP tennis players over a 20 year period - Ian Burnette and Teddy Farkas
- Women earn the glory while men earn the money in U.S. soccer - Peter Dola and Sam Keller
- April 29 - Exam #2
- May 2 - Poster Session 3
- openWAR: An open source system for evaluating overall performance in major league baseball - Evan Frazier and Matt Contreas
- The contract year syndrome in the NBA and MLB: A classic undermining pattern - Liam Ingoglia and Tyler Kimble
- The warriors convinced big schools that small ball works - Cayla Anderson and Juliana Withers
- The Long-Term Game: An Analysis of the Life Expectancy of National Football League Players - Ian Edwards
Homework Assignments
- HW #1 - due on Wednesday, January 27
- HW #2 - due on Wednesday, February 3
- HW #3 - due on Wednesday, February 10
- Exploratory Data Analysis Proposals - short e-mail message with title, date, and description of your project - Friday, February 12
- HW #4 - due on Wednesday, February 17
- HW #5 - due on Monday, March 28
- HW #6 - due on Monday, April 4
Quiz and Exam Samples
- Samples and solutions are provided in P:\data\math\hartlaub\SportsStats
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