<p>"This book is a collection of applications of analytic techniques to a number of popular sports including baseball, basketball, hockey, Jai Alai, NFL football and horseracing. We focus on both the statistics of the sporting events and betting strategies on the events. The subject is fascinating as there are many twists and subtle complicated decisions. Sports analytics applies mathematical and statistical methods to important questions in the structure and performance of sporting activities using the same basic methods and approaches as data analysts in other disciplines. Sports games and events are a fruitful area for study and to evaluate betting strategies as there is extensive data and mean reversion. With prices changing continuously, risk arbitrage bets can be made. Moreover, little errors, like a penalty to a player or an error in a call by a referee, can change the score of a game and corresponding betting prices. The collection and analysis of in-game data can inform players, coaches and staff on effective decision making during sporting events. Novel features of the book include: an analysis of who were the greatest baseball batters; analyses of the players most important to team success (and they are not necessarily the best players) in basketball, NFL football and hockey; a tutorial on risk arbitrage and its applications to NFL football and NBA basketball; a discussion of many ad hoc decision rules by coaches and players and what was really optimal; in the racing section we discuss breeding, the analysis of various bets like the Rainbow and ordinary Pick 6, a discussion and betting on the most important races and a visit to the Breeders Cup with Ed Thorp to demonstrate the place and show system in action"--</p>

Sports Analytics (World Scientific Series In Finance)

Business & Money

Ziemba, William T.

MACLEAN, LEONARD C

Education & Reference

WSPC

"I highly recommend this excellent volume, which is full of original and important research and insights. I have learned a huge amount from it. An absolute joy to read."   Leighton Vaughan Williams  Professor of Economics and Finance & Director, Betting Research Unit Nottingham Business School, UK  Leighton Vaughan Williams Professor of Economics and Finance & Director, Betting Research Unit Nottingham Business School, UK This guidebook presents historical and new material to assist the reader to understand NFL game strategies and provides a winning betting strategy. The authors, William Ziemba and Leonard MacLean are professors, traders, financial analysts and sports enthusiasts. They covered ideas like the game's strategies, and shared their wealth of personal experience analyzing the regular season, the playoffs and the Super Bowls in the years 2010–2017. The results of their actual betting for the 2009 10 to the 2017–18 seasons are provided. The authors concluded the book with a forecast for the 2018–2019 season. They determine the players most valuable to win the games, discuss crucial decisions and provide prediction methodology. The authors concluded with a forecast of the top teams, players and odds to win the 53rd Super Bowl. Readership: NFL fans who want to have an indepth knowledge of NFL players, coaches, history of NFL as well as the future of the game.

Dr Z's Nfl Guidebook (World Scientific Finance)

Sports & Outdoors

This book consists of invaluable introductions, tutorials and problems which are helpful for teaching purposes and have a very broad appeal and usage. The problems cover many aspects of static and dynamic portfolio theory as well as other important subjects such as arbitrage and asset pricing, utility theory, stochastic dominance, risk aversion and static portfolio theory, risk measures, dynamic portfolio theory and asset allocation. This material could be used with important books that cover these topics including MacLean-Ziemba's The Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making, and Ziemba-Vickson's Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance.

Problems In Portfolio Theory And The Fundamentals Of Financial Decision Making (World Scientific Finance)

Finance

<p>This book consists of invaluable introductions, tutorials and problems which are helpful for teaching purposes and have a very broad appeal and usage. The problems cover many aspects of static and dynamic portfolio theory as well as other important subjects such as arbitrage and asset pricing, utility theory, stochastic dominance, risk aversion and static portfolio theory, risk measures, dynamic portfolio theory and asset allocation. This material could be used with important books that cover these topics including MacLean-Ziemba's The Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making, and Ziemba-Vickson's Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance.</p>

PROBLEMS IN PORTFOLIO THEORY AND THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING (World Scientific Finance)

World Scientific Publishing Company

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Sports Analytics (World Scientific Series In Finance)

Dr Z's Nfl Guidebook (World Scientific Finance)

Problems In Portfolio Theory And The Fundamentals Of Financial Decision Making (World Scientific Finance)

PROBLEMS IN PORTFOLIO THEORY AND THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING (World Scientific Finance)