Curve fitting is all about determining the relationship between two variables. More specifically, fitting a curve to data is about using one observed number to…
You can’t stay king (or queen) forever. The Great One will eventually just become a great one. The title of GOAT (greatest of all time)…
How could something called “the secretary problem” be at all useful in sports analytics? Pretend you’re Aaron Judge this offseason. You’re pretty sure that all…
By: Manthan Koolwal (Author Bio Below) Web Scraping data is required for performance analytics. You can find this data on websites like NBA, FIFA, NFL,…
When somebody asks me what a mathematician actually does all day, I often bring up strength of schedule in sports. Strength of schedule is one…
One of the overwhelming stories in science over the last decade is the huge breakthrough in machine learning spurred largely by neural networks and increased…
In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at applications of permutations and combinations in sports. Permutations and combinations are two of the…
One of the most under-taught tools in mathematics is the autocorrelation function. Autocorrelation functions are extremely useful whenever data are related to time or are…
From the classical application in professional chess to FiveThirtyEight’s basketball and baseball models to even online esports and gaming like League of Legends, the Elo…
In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at applications of the exponential distribution in sports. The exponential distribution is very closely related…