Using Statistics in Coaching Part 2

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If you took a college statistics course you probably remember it with the same thrill as having to clean your room as a child. You learned terms and formulas that seemed to have no real world applications.

But today in most sports statistics have become a sophisticated science for gaining a competitive advantage from amateur to professional levels. Most sports have a myriad of well-known numbers, statistics that measure everything from the average length of a six iron, to free throw percentage, to yards per run, to batting percentage on.

A quick count I made of core stats showed baseball has 85, basketball has 47, and soccer has…