Opening vignette (I of 5) Sports Analytics-An Exciting Frontier for Learning and Understanding Applications of Analytics Sports analytics is becoming a specialty within analytics Sports is a big business Generating $145B in revenues annually Additional $100B in legal and $300B in illegal gambling Analytic in sports popularized by the Moneyball book by Michael Lewis in 2003 About oakland a's And the follow-on movie in 201 1 Nowadays, analytics is used in many facets of sports Pearson Copyright C 2018, 2014, 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights ReservedCopyright © 2018, 2014, 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Opening Vignette (1 of 5) Sports Analytics—An Exciting Frontier for Learning and Understanding Applications of Analytics • Sports analytics is becoming a specialty within analytics • Sports is a big business – Generating $145B in revenues annually – Additional $100B in legal and $300B in illegal gambling • Analytic in sports popularized by the Moneyball book by Michael Lewis in 2003 – About Oakland A’s – And the follow-on movie in 2011 • Nowadays, analytics is used in many facets of sports