Using Mathematics and Statistics to Understand Data from Baseball Football Basketball and Other Spo. This book provides a concise yet thorough introduction to the analytic and statistical methods that are useful in studying sports. It explains how to apply the methods to sports data and interpret the results, demonstrating that the analysis of sports data is often different from standard statistical analysis. The book integrates numerous motivating sports examples throughout and offers guidance on computation and suggestions for further reading in each chapter. Many of the datasets are available from the authors website.