Nontraditional undergraduate research problems from sports analytics and related fields

Yerger, Carl

doi:10.2140/involve.2014.7.423

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Nontraditional undergraduate research problems from sports analytics and related fields

Carl R. Yerger

Vol. 7 (2014), No. 3, 423–430

DOI: 10.2140/involve.2014.7.423

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to encourage advisors to consider choosing a topic related to sports analytics for their next undergraduate research project. We discuss some of the advantages of working in problems related to sports analytics in an undergraduate research context. We also give a sense of the skills necessary to be successful in research, some ideas of what would make good problems, and avenues to present results. This article expands on the author’s presentation at the 2012 Trends in Undergraduate Research in the Mathematical Sciences Conference.

Keywords

sports, undergraduate research, analytics

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 62-07

Secondary: 91-02, 62P20, 62P30

Milestones

Received: 15 January 2013

Revised: 28 May 2013

Accepted: 11 October 2013

Published: 28 April 2014

Communicated by Darren A. Narayan

Authors

Carl R. Yerger
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Davidson College Box 7059 Davidson, NC 28035 United States

Vol. 7, No. 3, 2014