Group items tagged sports - applied statistics

shared by Benno Hansen on 20 Jul 09 - Cached

Sports commentators will often argue the importance of scoring the first goal and often suggest that a team improves its chances of winning considerably by scoring it.
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calculating the probability of the first-goal team winning at discrete points in the match after the first goal is scored based on the number of minutes remaining in the game
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Team X is playing team Y. Team X scores first and there are T minutes left in regulation time.
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goal scoring follows the law of statistics known as a Poisson distribution
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From the first whistle, team X has a 50:50 chance of winning.
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shared by Benno Hansen on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached

We may no longer need the humans, at least for data-driven stories.
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Every story on each site was written by a robot, or to put it more precisely, by StatSheet’s content algorithms. “The posts are completely auto-generated,” says founder Robbie Allen. “The only human involvement is with creating the algorithms that generate the posts.”
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It has about 20 different types of articles that it generates, from season previews to game recaps. StatSheet might analyze 10,000 data points and 4,000 possible phrases to generate a single story.
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shared by Benno Hansen on 03 Sep 10 - Cached

spinning balls suddenly change trajectory, from a smooth arc to a sharp inward curl
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spinning balls follow a kind of circular arc as they slow from drag forces and are pushed from a linear path by the so-called Magnus effect
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For a well-struck soccer ball, the researchers estimate, one might expect a gentle arc followed by a sharp hook at about 50 meters
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shared by Benno Hansen on 31 Jan 10 - Cached

"We found that on average the player who committed the foul is taller than the one who was the victim,"
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Humans throughout evolution needed to be more afraid of bigger animals because bigger animals usually have more potential to harm us,"
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shared by Benno Hansen on 15 Mar 15 - No Cached

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