Mathletics: How statistics is changing the game in sport Rich Bingham, Lexie Bonas, Tara Broughton, Jess Hargreaves, Ben Powell and India Richmond
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In 2002, the Oakland Athletics changed baseball (and the rest of the sporting world) forever. With a budget less than a third of the New York Yankees’ the A’s were supposed to be underdogs. Instead, they won an astonishing 103 games and made it to the playoffs. Their secret weapon? It wasn’t a star player. It was data.
Join statisticians and computational biologists from the University of York to hear about the data-driven revolution taking place in sport. Find out about the power of statistics and why professional and amateur teams alike are increasingly using data to help make decisions in areas such as tactics, strategy and recruitment.
About the speakers
All the speakers are members of Quantitative Sports Analysis: York (QSAY) - a group which undertakes mathematical investigations of sports data at the University of York.
Dr Jess Hargreaves and Dr Ben Powell are statisticians working in the Department of Mathematics; Dr Richard Bingham is a computational biologist in the Departments of Mathematics and Biology; India Richmond (PhD student), Tara Broughton (PhD student) and Lexie Bonas (third year student) are students in the Department of Mathematics – all at the University of York.
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