Sports Math

Roland Minton Capp-Whitehead Professor of Mathematics Roanoke College Salem, Virginia minton@roanoke.edu

This website is a companion to the CRC Press book Sports Math. Please send me corrections or additions to the book. Book Business Link to Chapter Notes Link to Chapter Errata Recommended Resources Here are some good places to visit for research ideas, finding out what others have done and getting ideas for what you can do next. Links to Other Sites Book References Recommended Articles Please consider sending your work to be posted here. As the site evolves, I hope to have blog and wiki areas to make it easy to get in touch with each other and share results. Links to My Work Links to Others' Work By the Numbers Golf By the Numbers is my book on golf analytics. The website is full of golf statistics. By the Numbers is my longstanding college football ratings blog. Golf Site College Football Links to Meetings Roanoke College hosted the Virginia Sports Analytics Meeting on September 16, 2017, and we take a large group of students to the excellent CSAM conferences at Furman University. The sports sessions at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in early January are great. The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is a star-studded event. Several other international meetings are recommended. VSAM JMM CSAM Sloan Sports MathSport NESSIS MSAM GLASC Hockey Link to Sports SIGMAA for the website of the Mathematical Association of America's special interest group Sports SIGMAA. Stat Crew Stat Crew is a group of students at Roanoke College whose goals are to promote student research and provide analytics for the college's athletic teams. A sampling of results can be found at Stat Crew page and the public home page is at Stat Crew links.