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As Davidson and other young people work toward joining
the Ari Kaplans of the world, learning how to combine the words
of sports with the numbers of sports will prove to be a vital tool.
Text-Dependent Questions
1. What was Ari Kaplan’s first big move in putting stats into computers
for the Orioles?
2. Why did Ian Clark say it is a challenge to compare hockey
goaltenders?
3. What are some of the aspects of an NBA game that analytics can
now explore thanks to SportVU?
Research Project
If you were helping your favorite team interview managerial/coaching
candidates, what types of questions, from an analytics standpoint,
would you want them to answer?