In this sports analytics blog, Victor Holman provides the latest strategies to help coaches, analysts and management improve the IQ, team dynamics & execution of their players. Learn about sports analytics methodologies, best practices and latest trends as Victor brings real life examples with today’s teams. Victor Holman is a business performance expert, management consultant, speaker, and author. His thought leadership in business performance, organizational performance and process improvement has been demonstrated in books, frameworks and products he’s published over the last 20 years. Victor has served as a performance expert, project manager and management consultant to over 100 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and Federal Agencies. He’s been featured in major television, radio and print media outlets for his ability to help small businesses outperform their competition by applying strategies, frameworks and management tools that work for large, successful businesses. And Victor is applying these same concepts to sports management and sports analytics. Victor believes that like small businesses, less talented basketball programs can level the playing field by applying a sports analytics methods that transcend their analytics programs beyond management decision making and into quantitative results delivered by the players. He also believes that in order to make a team function at optimal performance, it’s critical that game data is gathered, analyzed and translated into value that can be easily measured and delivered by its players. His sports analytics blog helps teams figure out how to apply their data and existing analytics systems to help players measure value, increase IQ and create synergy using his Agile Basketball Framework. Victor’s sports analytics blog provides insight into all of the various statistical methods applied in sports analytics along with the key innovators and researchers who continue to push the sports analytics envelope.
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…
DetailsIn this installment of Victor Holman’s Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill, Victor explains Play Sketching. Tracking data in sports has become a staple for teams and coaches as they can now study their upcoming opponents in order to determine the best strategy possible. However, coaches do not have access to this data during the game…
DetailsVictor 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…
DetailsVictor 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…
DetailsVictor 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…
Details__________________________________ 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…
DetailsVictor 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…
DetailsVictor 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…
DetailsVictor 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…
DetailsVictor 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…
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