mathofsports

STATS 50: FALL 2011

General handouts

• 16 Dec 2011Midterm Solutions
• 22 Oct 2011Do longer games favor the stronger player?
• 27 Sep 2011First-lecture questionnaire | Solutions
• 27 Sep 2011Leo's Notes
• 27 Sep 2011References
• 27 Sep 2011Course outline

Baseball

• 15 Nov 2011Cover, T. and Keilers, C. An Offensive Earned-Run Average for Baseball, Operations Research, March 1977
• 15 Nov 2011Williams, T. Ted William's Hit Zone
• 15 Nov 2011Schwarz, A. Net Expected Run Values (NERV), Harvard Magazine,May-June 2002

Football

• 18 Oct 2011Stern, H. "On the probability of winning a football game", Amer. Stat., Aug. 1991, vol. 45, no. 3.
• 18 Oct 2011Postrel, V. "The value of different football strategies on fourth down...", New York Times, 12 Sep 2002.
• 13 Oct 2011Romer, D. "Do firms maximize? Evidence from professional football", J. Political Econ., July 2006. (Corrected version)
•   11 Oct 2011Carter, V. and Machol, R. "Operations research on football", Operations Research, vol. 19, no. 2, 1971.
•   11 Oct 2011Romer's field position vs. points graph