Some experts focus on conventional football statistics like: points tallied, points let, number of acquires, number of losses, turnovers, takeaways, yards derived, yards let, quarterback ratings, momentum, margin of victories, margin of losses and modern performances. And these measures are applicable
However, Dr. Granat and Carlton Chin show how moral toughness, training, leadership, focus, errors, social relationships, attitude, and ability to get into the zone lend to success in ample games. And they have nonverbal data which support many of their theories.
“I enjoy applying my approaches to the world of sports,” remarked Carlton Chin.
The new book, published by World Audience, Inc., is named Who Will Win The Big Game? 50 Characteristics of Champions. This easygoing to scan steer identifies the key mental and nonverbal issues that coaches, fans, team owners, sports executives, athletes and bettors necessitate to be consider when evaluating two top teams or two top athletes that are meeting in an ample game.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Nice mention for book's research
Our book (available at Amazon) and research got a nice mention at this golf website. Here's an excerpt:
For the complete text, please visit:
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Quant Facts -- Prediction Update
Our "quant facts" methods picked the World Series winner (San Francisco) after a lackluster performance in the earlier playoff rounds. Some sports fans noted that we "jumped the gun" a bit because our book's research is based on actual Championship games and series -- and not necessarily "the earlier playoff rounds."
Still, it was a fun and interesting experiment -- and our results are still a solid 17-9 in published "quant fact" predictions. The predictions are based on concepts of sports psychology that we quantify based on decades worth of data across the major US sports championships. Note that these approaches often pick teams and players that are underdogs, so that the 17-9 record is significant.
Our research shows that sports psychology concepts such as:
- leadership,
- coaching,
- experience,
- minimizing errors,
- consistency, and
- hard work (for example, less-glitzy skills such as defense) --
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Additional World Series article
If you are following the World Series, here are some articles based on a combination of quant research on concepts of sports psychology by Carlton Chin, of Adamah Capital, and Jay Granat, of StayIntheZone.com (for our book, "Who Will Win the Big Game?").
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SF fans may prefer the NY Times article -- since the article (which focuses on the numbers) leans to the Giants...
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/Texas fans may prefer this article, by my co-author, who goes for the softer "psychological" factors.
For purposes of this blog's records, the "official" prediction for the World Series will remain the Giants (the original pre-World Series-published article in the NY Times) -- based on our "quant facts."
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