Materials for the Statistics in Sports class for first-year undergrads at Oxford College of Emory University. This course is unique in that it assumes no background. It covers:
- An introduction to sports analytics and R for sports analytics
- Baseball analytics
- Basketball analytics
- Football analytics
- Soccer analytics
- Sports business analytics
- Some other random sessions as part of Oxford's first-year experience (ignore these)
Materials include:
- Syllabus
- Lecture slides
- Practical R labs
- Homeworks
The course also includes a group final project working with real-world sports data. The projects for this semester were analyses of Emory's MBB and WBB practice data, creating a recruitment map for Emory Athletics, and analyzing nflfastR data. A more detailed final project description and rubric is available upon request.
Feel free to use any of these materials with attribution to Zachary Binney, Oxford College of Emory University and this Github link.