{"id":3505,"date":"2014-04-10T14:35:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2014-04-10T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:36:19","slug":"sports-analytics-making-line-changes-hockey-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/sports-analytics-making-line-changes-hockey-business\/3505\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Analytics Making Line Changes in Hockey and Business"},"content":{"rendered":"NHL franchises are slowly embracing the \u2018Moneyball\u2019 strategy of using analytics to assist in coaching, training and player evaluation but the league has been behind the other sports for two reasons. Hockey has more of a flow aspect to it and to build analytics models around the sport of hockey, you must have a very deep understanding of the game. This second has proven to be the biggest obstacle in hockey embracing analytics but a firm out of Park City, UT is changing this. \u00a0The Sports Analytics Institute was founded in 2008 by two university professors that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/sports-analytics-making-line-changes-hockey-business\/3505\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHL franchises are slowly embracing the \u2018Moneyball\u2019 strategy of using analytics to assist in coaching, training and player evaluation but the league has been behind the other sports for two reasons. Hockey has more of a flow aspect to it and to build analytics models around the sport of hockey, you must have a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[333,331,8,334,330,332],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-hockey-analytics","tag-hockey-statistics","tag-predictive-analytics","tag-regression-analysis","tag-sports-analytics","tag-sports-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}