Football Analytics with Python & R: Learning Data Science Through the Lens of Sports

Eager, Eric; Erickson, Richard

ISBN 10: 1492099627 / ISBN 13: 9781492099628

Verlag: O'Reilly Media, 2023

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1690162403877

Inhaltsangabe:

Baseball is not the only sport to use "moneyball." American football teams, fantasy football players, fans, and gamblers are increasingly using data to gain an edge on the competition. Professional and college teams use data to help identify team needs and select players to fill those needs. Fantasy football players and fans use data to try to defeat their friends, while sports bettors use data in an attempt to defeat the sportsbooks.

In this concise book, Eric Eager and Richard Erickson provide a clear introduction to using statistical models to analyze football data using both Python and R. Whether your goal is to qualify for an entry-level football analyst position, dominate your fantasy football league, or simply learn R and Python with fun example cases, this book is your starting place.

Through case studies in both Python and R, you'll learn to:

• Obtain NFL data from Python and R packages and web scraping
• Visualize and explore data
• Apply regression models to play-by-play data
• Extend regression models to classification problems in football
• Apply data science to sports betting with individual player props
• Understand player athletic attributes using multivariate statistics

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Eric A Eager is the Head of Research, Development and Innovation at Pro Football Focus (PFF), where he uses his training as an applied mathematician to produce solutions to quantitative problems for 32 National Football League clients, over 105 NCAA Football clients and numerous media clients and contacts. He also co-hosts the PFF Forecast Podcast, which can be found on PodcastOne and iTunes and is the most popular football analytics podcast in the world since 2018. Additionally, Eager supplies odds used by Steve Kornacki on Football Night in America, the Today Show, and other programs since 2020.

He studied applied mathematics and mathematical biology at the University of Nebraska, where he wrote his PhD thesis on how stochasticity and nonlinear processes affect population dynamics. Eager spent his first six years thereafter as a professor at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, before transitioning to PFF full-time in 2018. He has since taught statistics and mathematics to over 10,000 students through college-level courses, the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative's Moneyball Academy, as well as an online course, "Linear Algebra for Data Science in R" with DataCamp.

Eager has been interviewed by nfl.com's Ian Rappoport about Cowboys in-game decision making and The Washington Post for commentary about sports analytics. He joined the legendary Peter King's podcast about fourth-down decisions and is a frequent guest on Cris Collinsworth's podcast.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Football Analytics with Python & R: Learning...
Verlag: O'Reilly Media
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Soft cover
Zustand: New
Auflage: 1st Edition