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o Re: statistics afffecting team sportsRich Ulrich

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Subject: Re: statistics afffecting team sports
From: Rich Ulrich
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:53 UTC
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On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 12:36:41 -0500, Rich Ulrich
<rich.ulrich@comcast.net> wrote:

>Also - During a late-night replay of a football game yesterday,
>there was an attempt to "convert on 4th down" and the
>commentator declared that there is a new book out that
>applies "metrics" to a large number of situations in football.

"Analytics" instead of "metrics"?

Last week, I read about someone applying analytics to
women's basketball. One early conclusion that I recall is
that the conventional statistics (like scoring, assists,
shooting percentages, and rebounds) seemed more
complete for women's ball than for men's.

During the Winter Olympics, I ran into an example
of "analytics" in a surprising sport -- CURLING.
(It must be a sport - a competitor was disqualified for
steriods.)

For Curling, the analytics were for the sweepers in
training rather than in competition. They measure broom
action by using a special boom or small devices on a broom.

Apparently, there is now a new science concerning how hard to
push down, how fast to sweep, and how to choose the angle
to hold the broom.

The fellow who is selling this or distributing it uses a predictive
formula to get the effectiveness of what the sweeper is doing
in practice, so they can improve. According to the article,
several of the teams at the Olympics were using it this time.
Four years ago, it may have been mainly the Canadians --
who have been pretty successful.

--
Rich Ulrich

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