Math behind Moneyball

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Professor Winston and appreciated all the additional references he pointed out during the lectures.

I was supposed to complete this course months ago and am just finishing now because the only way to finish this test was to blindly guess at numbers and loosely make some of those guesses based off of the feedback from other students who were struggling with this on the discussion board as well.

The amount of material that is covered is really impressive!Biggest problem with this course: it doesn't turn up when you search for "sports analytics" in Coursera's search - luckily for me mooclist.com knows about it Pretty good course where you learn how to analyse performance via various statistical analysis techniques.

Resultantly some of the assessment questions proved impossible given the knowledge needed about the sport.

I was familiar with most of the concepts, but enjoyed seeing how easily all of these advanced stats could be calculated, and learned some really useful Excel functionality (what-if analysis, solver).

Much extraneous noise like cans and snapple bottles opening and someone clearing dishes in the background.

Still, pretty cool to see how decisions and betting done using data This is a very enlighting course for me, as an esports analyst, I found many analytic methods in traditional sports inspirational.

It provided the tools in Excel and the methods to model various sports outcomes so that I can start creating my own models.

This content missing makes that a completely misleading description as we were not provided the knowledge or content necessary to successfully complete this course in the appropriate amount of time.

It's a shame I leave with this impression because the course has potential and I did learn a fair amount from it, but I will not get past how poorly I was treated by Coursera's customer service and how little they cared that the course was setting students up for failure.

I reached out to Coursera on multiple occasions asking for support and was basically ignored not counting a couple of useless responses.