BEN ALAMAR talks with OSCAR VILLALON / Sports Analtytics

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 7:30pm
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Ben Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at USF and has published numerous cutting edge studies on strategy and player evaluation. Today, he cochairs the sports statistics section of the International Statistics Institute and consults with several professional teams and businesses in sports analytics.

There isn’t a better representative of this emerging field to show diverse organizations how to implement analytics into their decision-making strategies, especially as the programs behind analytic tools grow increasingly complex. Alamar provides a clear, easily digestible survey of the practice and a detailed understanding of analytics’ vast possibilities. He explains how to evaluate different programs and put them to use. Using concrete examples from professional sports teams and case studies demonstrating the use and value of analytics in the field, Alamar designs a roadmap for managers and other professionals as they build their own programs and teach their approach to others.

 

 

 

Ben Alamar is a professor of sport management at Menlo College and a sports analytics consultant/researcher. He has consulted with a variety of teams in the NFL and NBA, including five seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder and with a variety of companies in sports analytics. He has published numerous research studies in sports analytics and has written on sports analytics for outlets such as ESPN, Analytics Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

 

 

Oscar Villalon is a book reviewer and the managing editor of Zyzzyva. And a sports fan.

 

 

 

 

Books: 
Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers By Benjamin Alamar, Dean Oliver (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Benjamin Alamar, Dean Oliver (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9780231162920
Availability: Out of Stock - Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Columbia University Press - August 6th, 2013