Victor Holman, Sports Analytics Expert discusses subjects and variables. Data is collected on a variety of subjects. Subjects can be individual players, teams, games, seasons, plays, coaches, etc. The same subject can used in different ways depending on exactly what analysis is required. If we are comparing pitchers, we could compare Justin Verlander and Clayton…
Victor Holman, The Sports Analytics Expert, presents his Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill – Probability Distributions. In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is a mathematical function that provides the probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes in an experiment. In more technical terms, the probability distribution is a description of a random phenomenon…
Victor Holman, Sports Analytics Expert discusses Applying the Rules of Probability to Sports. Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur. Probability quantifies as a number between 0 and 1, where, loosely speaking, 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty. The higher the probability of an event, the more likely it…
Victor Holman, The Sports Analytics Expert, presents Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill – Predictive Modelling. Predictive modelling uses statistics to predict outcomes. Most often the event one wants to predict is in the future, but predictive modelling can be applied to any type of unknown event, regardless of when it occurred. For example, predictive models…
__________________________________ Victor Holman, The Sports Analytics Expert, presents his Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill – Bipartite Graph Algorithms. In the mathematical field of graph theory, a bipartite graph (or bigraph) is a graph whose vertices can be divided into two disjoint and independent sets {\displaystyle U} U and {\displaystyle V} V such that every edge…
Victor Holman, The Sports Analytics Expert, presents his Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill – Predictive Model Weights. Developing a Data-Driven Player Ranking in Soccer Using Predictive Model Weights. Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, however, its statistics are not as sophisticated as those used in other sports. Players are evaluated using simple stats like…
Victor Holman, The Sports Analytics Expert, presents his Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill – Frequency Distributions. Frequency distribution is a table that displays the frequency of various outcomes in a sample. Each entry in the table contains the frequency or count of the occurrences of values within a particular group or interval, and in this…
Victor Holman, The Sports Analytics Expert, presents his Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill – Expected Rewards Technique. The ultimate goal of decision making is to find an optimal behavior subject to some optimality criterion. Optimizing for the infinite-horizon expected discounted total reward is one of the most studied such criteria. ———————— Find out how Sports…
Victor Holman, sports analytics expert, explains eSports Analytics and Encounter Detection Algorithms. The field of e-sports, or computer games played competitively, is growing around the world, with millions of competitors and millions of viewers. As a result, e-sports analytics have emerged, which relate to both sports analytics and digital game analytics. E-sports analytics have grown…
Using film or player tracking data, a quantitative analysis representative of the entire possession will occur where each moment in the possession is summarized on the basis of the expected value of the possession at each moment. For each moment of a possession a value is assigned to each of the individual tactical moves a player can…