Mathletics: How statistics is changing the game in sport

In 2002, the Oakland Athletics changed baseball (and the rest of the sporting world) forever. With a budget less than a third of the New York Yankees’ the A’s were supposed to be underdogs. Instead, they won an astonishing 103 games and made it to the playoffs. Their secret weapon? It wasn’t a star player. It was data.

Join statisticians and computational biologists from the University of York to hear about the data-driven revolution taking place in sport. Find out about the power of statistics and why professional and amateur teams alike are increasingly using data to help make decisions in areas such as tactics, strategy and recruitment.

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