MATH 1008: Sports Analytics: Turning Numbers into Game-Changing Insights

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On-campus course
  • Business
  • Mathematics
  • 11th
  • 12th
Credit-Bearing
2-Week Commuter Session: $2,595.00, 2-Week Residential Session: $6,595.00

Discover how data drives sports! This course explores rating systems, strength of schedule, voting fairness, and algorithms like PageRank for MVP rankings. Dive into stats like Pythagorean expectation, plus-minus, and park factors, while mastering probability to separate luck from skill. Through real examples from the NBA, NFL, MLB, and soccer, students learn to analyze, predict, and present insights—culminating in a hands-on sports analytics project.

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