Sports Analytics

2 credits · Owen Graduate School of Management

Uses data and quantitative methods to measure performance and make decisions to gain advantage in the competitive sports arena. The course builds on Managerial Statistics and Spreadsheets for Business Analytics. These two pre-requisite courses have exposed students to powerful quantitative methods such as multiple regression, constrained optimization and simulation. In this course, students gain further experience in applying quantitative methods to problems in sports. Typical questions in sports analytics include: How to predict future performance of players or teams? How much is a player on a team worth? How to rank players or teams? Which decision is more likely to lead to a win? We will cover several sports, but to be able to 'go deep' we will focus significantly on baseball and football. The course is for second-year MBA students only. Pre-requisites: MGT 6381 and MGT 6574. [2]