Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy provides the sports community--students, professionals, and casual sports fans--with the essential mathematics and statistics required to objectively analyze sports teams, evaluate player performance, and predict game outcomes. These techniques can also be applied to fantasy sports competitions.

Readers will learn how to:

• Accurately rank sports teams
• Compute winning probability
• Calculate expected victory margin
• Determine the set of factors that are most predictive of team and player performance...