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Big Ideas in Sports Analytics and Statistical Tools for their Investigation
Benjamin S. Baumer, Gregory J. Matthews, Quang Nguyen
Sports analytics -- broadly defined as the pursuit of improvement in athletic performance through the analysis of data -- has expanded its footprint both in the professional sports…
How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport
Michael J. Lopez, Gregory J. Matthews, Benjamin S. Baumer
Statistical applications in sports have long centered on how to best separate signal (e.g. team talent) from random noise. However, most of this work has concentrated on a single s…
openWAR: An Open Source System for Evaluating Overall Player Performance in Major League Baseball
Benjamin S. Baumer, Shane T. Jensen, Gregory J. Matthews
Within baseball analytics, there is substantial interest in comprehensive statistics intended to capture overall player performance. One such measure is Wins Above Replacement (WAR…