Pro Basketball Forecast

Pro Basketball Forecast
Title Pro Basketball Forecast PDF eBook
Author John Hollinger
Publisher Potomac Books
Pages 0
Release 2005
Genre Basketball
ISBN 9781574889628

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ESPN.com's John Hollinger returns with another edition of the Pro Basketball Forecast, packed full of stats and discussion on every single player who saw time in the league last year plus each team's draft picks and a season analysis. Hollinger is one of the leaders of basketball's statistical revolution, devising new ways of looking at players and teams to better see their true worth. Denver Nuggets assistant coach Chip Engelland opined, "I don't know if the teams know so much about some of their players." By reading the Forecast, you can know what Hollinger does.

Pro Basketball Prospectus

Pro Basketball Prospectus
Title Pro Basketball Prospectus PDF eBook
Author John Hollinger
Publisher Potomac Books
Pages 0
Release 2004-09
Genre Basketball players
ISBN 9781574886566

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The next generation of basketball analysis

Evaluating Performance

Evaluating Performance
Title Evaluating Performance PDF eBook
Author Michele Biasutti
Publisher Frontiers Media SA
Pages 293
Release 2023-10-19
Genre Science
ISBN 2832536263

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Onward to Victory

Onward to Victory
Title Onward to Victory PDF eBook
Author Murray Sperber
Publisher Henry Holt and Company
Pages 882
Release 2014-07-29
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 146687645X

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From the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder, Murray Sperber's Onward to Victory is a brilliant, detailed, and engrossing work of social history for not only sports fans, but anyone interested in the development of modern American culture. With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time college sports in America. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including press accounts, letters and diaries, historical papers, and interviews with many who were there, Murray Sperber recounts how the myths created by Hollywood studios were embellished and codified by a hungry press, infiltrating the collective unconscious with epic stories of players, coaches, and teams. As college sports became a mainstay of popular entertainment, they also were fertile ground for near-fatal scandal, ultimately giving rise to the modern NCAA. Sperber vividly re-creates the world of postwar America, with its all-powerful radiomen, its lurid press, its growing prosperity, and, of course, the infancy of television

Rocky Lives!

Rocky Lives!
Title Rocky Lives! PDF eBook
Author David E. Finger
Publisher Potomac Books, Inc.
Pages 494
Release 2014-05-27
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1612343090

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Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and--perhaps even more important--the judges. Sylvester Stallone mined that emotion through his long series of Rocky films. Rocky is fiction, however. The men in Rocky Lives! are real. David E. Finger, a writer for top boxing website FightNews.com, presents chronologically seventy-five heavyweight boxing upsets of the 1990s. Some involve boxers still fighting today; others contain a cautionary tale of once-great boxers chasing one last payday. There are also the early-round disasters of wannabes and athletes who switched to boxing in midstream. From the Tyson-Douglas, Foreman-Moorer, and Lewis-McCall top-dollar fights to low-level curiosities like former New York Jet Mark Gastineau getting embarrassed or Eric "Butterbean" Esch taking to the ring, David Finger presents the best heavyweight upsets the 1990s have to offer. You'll read about crooked promoters drugging opponents, a convicted felon hoping victory in the ring will win him leniency, and a forty-five-year-old preacher looking to exorcise a two-decade-old demon. Rocky Lives! brings all the knockouts and slugfests right into your home.

Sports Analytics

Sports Analytics
Title Sports Analytics PDF eBook
Author Jin Song Dong
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 341
Release
Genre
ISBN 3031690737

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Sports Data Mining

Sports Data Mining
Title Sports Data Mining PDF eBook
Author Robert P. Schumaker
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 144
Release 2010-09-10
Genre Computers
ISBN 1441967303

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Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data, and it’s commonly used in business, bioinformatics, counter-terrorism, and, increasingly, in professional sports. First popularized in Michael Lewis’ best-selling Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game, it is has become an intrinsic part of all professional sports the world over, from baseball to cricket to soccer. While an industry has developed based on statistical analysis services for any given sport, or even for betting behavior analysis on these sports, no research-level book has considered the subject in any detail until now. Sports Data Mining brings together in one place the state of the art as it concerns an international array of sports: baseball, football, basketball, soccer, greyhound racing are all covered, and the authors (including Hsinchun Chen, one of the most esteemed and well-known experts in data mining in the world) present the latest research, developments, software available, and applications for each sport. They even examine the hidden patterns in gaming and wagering, along with the most common systems for wager analysis.