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Author : Emma Huddleston
Publisher : Momentum
ISBN 13 : 9781503832343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Soccer Hot Streaks written by Emma Huddleston and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highlights various successes of both individuals and teams in soccer" -- www.childsworld.com
Author : Alan Reifman
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597977187
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Hot Hand written by Alan Reifman and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why streaks happen and why they matter.
Author : Reza Noubary
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664143505
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Sports & Mathematics written by Reza Noubary and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports and Mathematics The universal popularity of sports has inspired a goldmine of interesting examples for mathematicians, sport fans, and for the teaching and learning. Sports provide an inexhaustible source of fascinating and challenging problems. Today most sports can be studied from a mathematical perspective to valid quantitative results. Mathematical methods are applied to estimate an athlete's chances of success, identify the best training conditions, and to measure their effectiveness. Applied probability and statistics has been instrumental in analysis of vast amount of sport data available. Probabilistic Monte Carlo method are used for simulation model. In fact, it is generally recognized that the use of sports marks an exciting new direction in teaching and learning mathematics and related subjects. With the present state of education, ideas that connect mathematics to popular activities like sports is much needed. The goal of this book is to find a way to delight sport lovers about mathematics and mathematicians about sports to help them to see their connections. Its hope is to bring a variety of applications within the reach of sport fans with some mathematics background or interests.
Author : Emma Huddleston
Publisher : Momentum
ISBN 13 : 9781503832275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (322 download)
Download or read book NBA Hot Streaks written by Emma Huddleston and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses numerous successes of individuals and teams in the National Basketball Association.
Author : Chris Anderson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124560
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Numbers Game written by Chris Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet. Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions—How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player’s value be judged?—they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.
Author : Meg Walters
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510756302
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book World Cup Women written by Meg Walters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the illustrated story of 23 soccer players who worked together to become World Cup champions and heroes to millions of men, women, boys, and girls across America and around the world. In July 2019, a record number of people all around the world tuned in to watch the Women's World Cup, which took place in France. Fifty-two games, twenty-four teams, four weeks . . . one winner. Megan Rapinoe had waited for this day since she attended a World Cup game as a teenager, and Alex Morgan had set her sights on a World Cup victory of her own as she watched Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, and Team USA win in 1999. Years of hard work, determination, and practice put Megan, Alex, and their teammates in the perfect position, and they took full advantage. Rose Lavelle, Tobin Heath, Alyssa Naeher, Crystal Dunn, Ali Krieger, Julie Ertz, Carli Lloyd, and the rest of the US Women's National Team returned home from France with the title, the trophy, and their nation's pride, becoming the first team in history to win four Women's World Cup titles! New York City threw a parade in their honor, and fans lined the streets, clapping and cheering and chanting their names. These women were on top of the world—they'd come so far. They'd achieved their dreams! World Cup Women highlights Team USA's tournament experience and provides a glimpse into what shot them to the top . . . and what may keep them there a little longer.
Author : Ben Cohen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062820745
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Hot Hand written by Ben Cohen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you maximize success—and limit failure? Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen brilliantly investigates the mystery and science of streaks, from basketball to business. "A feast for anyone interested in the secrets of excellence." —Andre Agassi For decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking about whether streaks actually exist. After all, a substantial number of decisions that we make in our everyday lives are quietly rooted in this one question: If something happened before, will it happen again? Is there such a thing as being in the zone? Can someone have a “hot hand”? Or is it simply a case of seeing patterns in randomness? Or, if streaks are possible, where can they be found? In The Hot Hand, Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen offers an unfailingly entertaining and provocative investigation into these questions. He begins with how a $35,000 fine and a wild night in New York revived a debate about the existence of streaks that was several generations in the making. We learn how the ability to recognize and then bet against streaks turned a business school dropout named David Booth into a billionaire, and how the subconscious nature of streak-related bias can make the difference between life and death for asylum seekers. We see how previously unrecognized streaks hidden amidst archival data helped solve one of the most haunting mysteries of the twentieth century, the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. Cohen also exposes how streak-related incentives can be manipulated, from the five-syllable word that helped break arcade profit records to an arc of black paint that allowed Stephen Curry to transform from future junior high coach into the greatest three-point shooter in NBA history. Crucially, Cohen also explores why false recognition of nonexistent streaks can have cataclysmic results, particularly if you are a sugar beet farmer or the sort of gambler who likes to switch to black on the ninth spin of the roulette wheel.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615305580
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Basketball and Its Greatest Players written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing crowds for its displays of both raw athleticism and spectacular showmanship, basketball has become one of the most exciting spectator sports in the United States, as well as the world. Players renowned for their maneuverability and skillAir Jordan and his classic acrobatic moves, for instancehave intensified the level of competition in professional leagues and inspired everyday fans to shoot hoops in friendly games. This engaging volume examines the history and evolution of basketball and some of its most influential players.
Author : Ryan O'Hanlon
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647005558
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Net Gains written by Ryan O'Hanlon and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding around the world in the beautiful game Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution takes readers on a tour across the world and throughout soccer history, introducing the many people who have attempted to shine a light onto and innovate a sport that, in many ways, is still stuck in the Dark Ages. This deep dive into the rise of analytics in soccer—a sport where tradition reigns supreme—shows how revolutionary tactics and underexplored metrics are breaking the beautiful game wide open. By exploring how massive institutions built on billions of dollars can function for so long without any kind of introspection—and what happens when people from the outside attempt to question the status quo—author Ryan O'Hanlon, staff writer at ESPN, shows how time and again experts, managers, coaches, players, and fans feel they know the best approach for any given team or player, and yet get undermined by the complexity of the game—and human behavior. To tell this globe-trekking story, O'Hanlon takes readers inside the front offices and analytics departments of the top professional leagues’ most cutting-edge clubs and profiles a misfit cast of number-crunchers, behavioral economists, tech insiders, and managers all working to move beyond the philosophical side of soccer and uncover the hard truths behind possession, goals, and developing talent.
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 161228874X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Brian McBride written by Joanne Mattern and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian McBride is one of the most exciting soccer players in the world! He started as a young boy playing soccer with his friends. When he was older, he became a star for teams in the United States and England. Brian has had many challenges. He struggled with injuries. Then a serious illness almost ended his playing career. Brian used these hard times to become a stronger and happier person. He never lost his dream to play soccer and help others through his athletic talents.
Author : Tobias Moskowitz
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307591808
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Scorecasting written by Tobias Moskowitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.
Author : Blake Hoena
Publisher : National Geographic Kids Every
ISBN 13 : 1426317131
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Everything Soccer written by Blake Hoena and published by National Geographic Kids Every. This book was released on 2014 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From patches of dirt to gleaming turf, soccer is a game for all. Includes fun facts, maps and infographics, an illustrated diagram, a photo gallery, an interactive glossary, and more. Full color.
Author : Irving P Herman
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811209863
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Coming Home To Math: Become Comfortable With The Numbers That Rule Your Life written by Irving P Herman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of numbers and mathematics, and so we need to work with numbers and some math in almost everything we do, to control our happiness and the direction of our lives. The purpose of Coming Home to Math is to make adults with little technical training more comfortable with math, in using it and enjoying it, and to allay their fears of math, enable their numerical thinking, and convince them that math is fun. A range of important math concepts are presented and explained in simple terms, mostly by using arithmetic, with frequent connections to the real world of personal financial matters, health, gambling, and popular culture.As such, Coming Home to Math is geared to making the general, non-specialist, adult public more comfortable with math, though not to formally train them for new careers or to teach those first learning math. It may also be helpful to liberal arts college students who need to tackle more technical subjects. The range of topics covered may also appeal to scholars who are more math savvy, though it may not challenge them.
Author : James Buckley (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592967360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Soccer Superstars written by James Buckley (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction to some of today's most famous soccer stars."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Author : Rachel Rose
Publisher : Bearcub BIOS
ISBN 13 : 9781642809800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Megan Rapinoe written by Rachel Rose and published by Bearcub BIOS. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Score! Megan Rapinoe is a legend both on and off the soccer field. Learn how this soccer superstar and role model is inspiring the next generation of female athletes and activists.
Author : Chris Blake
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0137017103
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Art of Decisions written by Chris Blake and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fast-Paced, Fun-to-Read Guide to Making Better Decisions! How much information do you really need to make a business decision? Why don't past winners keep on winning? When should you fold your hand, and when should you press on? In The Art of Decisions, Chris Blake reveals the amazing hidden realities beneath human decision making-and helps you optimize every decision you make. Blake begins by exploding the #1 myth of decision making: the idea that if you have enough knowledge, you can engineer away all risk and make a rational, objective decision that's nearly guaranteed to succeed. Next, Blake turns to the decision-making process itself, teaching better ways to make decisions in a world full of uncertainty, randomness, and tough luck. Drawing on the secrets of psychology, poker, and probability, you'll learn how to identify and overcome biases and errors that constantly creep into the decision-making process. You'll discover the power and pitfalls of intuition in familiar and unfamiliar environments and learn "rules of thumb" drawn from fields as diverse as gambling and computer programming. You're human. You'll never be perfect. But if you want to be right more often, when it matters most, this book will get you there. * Decision-making lessons from Texas Hold'em What to do about the risks and randomness you can't eliminate * Follow your instinct or follow the rules? When to use your intuition--and when to doubt it * Know when it's time to decide How to know when you know enough * Make better decisions in unfamiliar environments Hire a guide or make a map?
Author : Avinash K. Dixit
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393069958
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life written by Avinash K. Dixit and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven Levitt Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world. Using a diverse array of rich case studies—from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history—the authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it. Mastering game theory will make you more successful in business and life, and this lively book is the key to that mastery.
