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NYTLN LESSON PLAN: Playing Smart With Data: Using Sports Analytics to Teach Math

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Tyler Kepner, the national baseball reporter for The New York Times, maintains notebooks filled with the statistics of every start of every starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/sports/baseball/a-season-bound-in-spiral-tracking-every-starting-pitchers-twists-and-turns.html">Related Article</a>
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Playing Smart With Data: Using Sports Analytics to Teach Math

By TIM CHARTIER AND MICHAEL GONCHAR

In this lesson, students delve into the booming field of sports analytics. We offer examples of how The Times uses analytics to enhance its sports coverage, and we suggest ways that students can collect their own data to analyze and present information.

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