CASE 4

ANALYSING ATHELETIC INJURIES

contents
 summary of the case
Challenges faced
Solution
Summary of case
• Any athletic activity is prone to injuries.
• Using analytics to understand injuries can
help in deriving valuable insights that
would enable coaches and team doctors to
manage the team composition, understand
player profiles, and ultimately aid in bet-
ter decision making.
Summary (contd..)
• Oklahoma State University analyzed
American football-related sports injuries
by using reporting and predictive analytics.
• followed the CRISP-DM methodology
• more than 560 football injury records,
• Various visualizations were built to draw
inferences from injury data set information
Summary (contd..)
• Neural network models were built to
predict each of the healing categories using
IBM SPSS Modeler
• Categorization was successful 79.6%
accuracy
•  Based on the analysis, many business
recommendations were suggested.