Benjamin C. Alamar on the second edition of Sports Analytics

Data and analytics have the potential to provide sports organizations with competitive advantages both on and off the field. But how are organizations incorporating analytics into their decision-making process? What challenges do they encounter in the use of analytics, and...

August 23, 2013

On Being a Sports Statistician: more interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, the last day of our book giveaway, we have an excerpt from...

August 22, 2013

Interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, we have a couple of great interviews with Ben Alamar, one with...

August 21, 2013

Benjamin Alamar: "Analytics Is Not a Strategy"

Read “Analytics Is Not a Strategy,” By Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics.

August 20, 2013

An Introduction to Sports Analytics – Benjamin C. Alamar

Read the introduction to Benjamin Alamar’s Sports Analytics!

August 8, 2013

Benjamin Alamar Discusses Sports Analytics

Today at 4:00 (EST) Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makerswill take part in #cloudchat to discuss how Big Data, the cloud, and analytics are changing sports. Among the other guests will...

June 25, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Sports, Italian Food, Pests, and The Problem with Pleasure

The following books are now available: Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers Benjamin C. Alamar Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation Massimo Montanari People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning From Our Body’s...

March 7, 2013

Ben Alamar Discusses Sports Analytics with Grantland

Zach Lowe from Grantland recently interviewed Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers . They interview took place at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference or “Nerd Fest 2013”. Alamar, who...

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