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Sport examples
We present two examples here for your consideration.

Chris Anderson and David Sally discuss the potential of an analytics approach to association football in their study of The Numbers Game.

In the introduction to their book, they write: The clue to analytics is in the name. To make (those) numbers mean something, to learn something from them, they must be analysed. The key, for those at the vanguard of what some have called a data 'revolution and what we think of as football's reformation, is to work out what they need to be counting, and to discover why, exactly, what they are counting counts.

Their book explores the analytics process and raises important empirical and methodological issues for this unit.

The second example presented here is the paper written in 1997 by Inderpal Bhandari and his colleagues at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. The paper is titled Advanced Scout: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in NBA Data. In the paper, they report their analysis of data gathered by a software program, Advanced Scout, that "seeks out and discovers interesting patterns in game data". We have chosen this paper to connect with the spirit of the literature of the time. The editor of the journal within which the paper was accepted was Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro.