Hockey: The Math of the Game (Sports Illustrated Kids: Sports Math)

by Shane Frederick (Author)

How do you calculate a players points? Whats the difference between a goalies save percentage and his goals against average? How much water is needed to cover an ice rink? Fight for the puck and learn about the math that goes into the sport of hockey!
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Gr 5-9—These books delve deep into the statistics of favorite pastimes. They are not written for novices; acronyms and terms are used freely and not always defined. For example, readers learn how to calculate OPS in baseball, but what does OPS stand for? What is "the lane" in basketball? The math gets complicated and in a couple of places a diagram would have been helpful. The full-color photographs depict well-known sports figures. The spreads are busy with stats, graphs, tables, and interesting sidebars. Each book discusses the field or court, the basics of the game, the offensive and defensive stats, and how to make projections of performance for teams and individual players. Overall these books will appeal to serious sports fans who want to learn more about the numbers of the game.

Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781429673211
Lexile Measure
1000
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication date
July 01, 2011
Series
Sports Illustrated Kids: Sports Math
BISAC categories
SPO020000 - Sports & Recreation | Hockey
Library of Congress categories
Mathematics
Hockey

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