Deck 4: The Data Game: Analyzing Our Way to Better Sport Performance

Question 1

By 2021 the sport analytics industry forecast is supposed to reach $50 billion.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Sport analytics has allowed the coupling of structured (e.g. GPS) and unstructured data (e.g. medical and treatment notes) to more effectively evaluate athletes.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What can Force Plate Technology help evaluate?

Answer 3

The assessment of vertical jump (VJ) performance via force plate profiling is a useful tool in the routine monitoring of athletes. The direct measurement of VJ kinetic and kinematic variables provides valuable insight pertaining to i) the neuromuscular strategies employed to achieve maximal jump performance, thus reflecting the movement efficiency of the athlete; ii) the neuromuscular status of athletes in response to training and competition, thus intimating the presence of adaptation or fatigue (and potential risk of injury); and iii) the lower-body explosive qualities of the athlete, thus highlighting areas of deficiency to better direct training program design.

Question 4

Force plate measurements can only be undertaken in a lab due to the equipment's size.

Question 5

GPS units are fitted with accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers, providing data on accelerations, decelerations, change of direction movements, and vertical jumps (height and frequency) performed.

Question 6

The Sydney Swans Football Club has utilized a neural network system to identify which athletes to draft.

Question 7

One of the biggest benefits of optical tracking is defining regions of value in a playing area and computing a players' ability to control or 'dominate' that space.

Question 8

Machine learning utilizes algorithms to identify and learn from patterns in data to make predictions without the need for the machine to be explicitly programmed.

Question 9

Assume you were going to develop a video system for an international games event. Name ten components of video replay that can enhance your team's medal haul at the games.

Question 10

If you are a social scientist studying impact of several variables on family income, what type of variable family income would be?

A) independent variable
B) dependent variable
C) repeat variable
D) dummy variable
E) none of the above

Question 11

One way to find a quant is to look at professors or students at a local college.

Question 12

The book compared a caricature drawing with a theory to show how creative they could be.

Question 13

A binary variable is similar to a Likert Scale with an option of 1-5 with one being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree.

Question 14

How would you define ordinal variables?

Question 15

What is better than more data?

A) better data
B) accurate data
C) correct data
D) provable data
E) all of the above

Question 16

Which of the following is an example of primary data?

A) internet research
B) Nielsen ratings
C) internal company data
D) published industry standards
E) none of the above

Question 17

Text and videos are examples of unstructured data.

Question 18

In TV shows the CSI folks actually match up a fingerprint to an image of another fingerprint.