Sports analytics

Baseball

  • arm sleeve
    • correlation between wearing and arm action??
    • tracking arm movement
      • correlation between motion and injury / success
      • correlation between rate / force / fatigue and starting to get injury
  • predicting game length based on time between pitches
    • use to push for shorter games
    • financial benefits
  • same as football below - optimize situations
    • stats that optimize probability of success in a situation

Basketball

  • what is correlated with contribution of a player?
    • success rate?
    • overall total points?
    • how many risky shots should a player take?
  • shot quantity negatively correlated with available time
  • success based on shot distance / shot location

Football

  • heart rate / health data correlated endurance
    • optimize training
    • time to push harder, time to scale back
  • statistics for particular positions
    • correlate particular stats with benefit to team
    • particular stats related to precise situational benefit

Tennis

  • stats correlated with winning
  • probability of winning based on particular situation
  • less complicated than team sports?

Soccer

  • correlation between location and wins
  • wins correlated with fan turnout

Hockey

  • home advantage - correlation between location and win probability
  • similar to above for shot data, win data
  • birth data correlated “success”