Special Topics in Statistics and Probability (STSP) Sports Data Analytics (7 ECTS)

    Course Code: 
    6238
    Semester: 
    8th
    Elective Courses
    Διδάσκων: 

    IOANNIS NTZOUFRAS - DIMITRIS KARLIS 

    • Review on distributions and GLM
    • Type of sports data, data collection and challenges
    • Data Visualization of sports data
    • Paired comparison models
    • Models for football
    • Models for basketball
    • Models for tennis and other sports
    • Performance analysis for various sports. Indices and rationale
    • Probabilities and  Betting
    • Sports Economics
    • Other quantitative methods, scheduling
    • Applications with real data

    Recommended Reading

    • Albert, J., Bennett, J., & Cochran, J. J. (Eds.). (2005). Anthology of statistics in sports. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    • Zuccolotto, P., & Manisera, M. (2020). Basketball data science: With applications in R. CRC Press.
    • Dobson, S., Goddard, J. A., & Dobson, S. (2001). The economics of football (Vol. 10). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    The course outline can be found here.