Can math accurately measure an athlete’s ability and predict his or her potential? This program explores ways of assessing what a player might achieve by determining probability and analyzing statistics. Introducing the concepts of dependent and independent events, the program exhibits and provides real-world illustrations of equations that are essential to joint probability studies. The discipline known as sabremetrics evokes the nearly inexhaustible wealth of data-analysis opportunities in baseball, while demonstrations from the worlds of tennis, track, swimming, and hockey offer additional insights into the science of sports performance. A Discovery Channel Production. (55 minutes)
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