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Old 09-20-2018, 11:02 PM   #1
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FYI: Dr. Z's NFL Guidebook

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Bet big on the NFL with new book by renowned finance professor Ziemba published by World Scientific

NFL football is an interesting game because everything moves quickly and it involves strategy that is fun to watch and bet on.
The NFL is home to some of the best athletes in the world. You have wide receivers that can run 40 yards in a little over four seconds, and then you have linemen that can bench 250 pounds 30-plus times. You have quarterbacks that can sling a football 70 or 80 yards down the field right into the hands of a waiting receiver, and running backs that can carry defenders on their back as if they were small children. There are linebackers that can hit you hard enough to rattle your insides around, and kickers that can boot a ball through two posts from 50-plus yards away on a windy day. The magic is that all of these athletes are on the same field at the same time.
In renowned professor William Ziemba’s latest book “Dr Z's NFL Guidebook”, published with World Scientific, Ziemba and his co-author Leonard C. MacLean present historical and new material to assist the reader to understand NFL game strategies and provides a winning betting strategy. The authors, William Ziemba and Leonard MacLean are professors, traders, financial analysts and sports enthusiasts.
The book covers ideas like the game's strategies, the authors’ wealth of personal experience analyzing the regular season, the playoffs and the Super Bowls in the years 2010–2017. The results of their actual betting for the 2009–10 to the 2017–18 seasons are provided. The authors concluded the book with a forecast for the 2018–2019 season. They determine the players most valuable to win the games, discuss crucial decisions and provide prediction methodology. The authors conclude with a forecast of the top teams, players and odds to win the 53rd Super Bowl.
The book will be sold at all major bookstores. More information about the book can be found at http://www.worldscientific.com/world.../10.1142/11160.

If you require an interview with the authors, a review copy of the book, or any other information, please contact Hooi Yean at hylee@wspc.com.

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About the authors
William T Ziemba is the Alumni Professor (Emeritus) of Financial Modeling and Stochastic Optimization in the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia where he taught from 1968–2006. His PhD is from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently teaches part time and makes short research visits to various universities. At present he is the Distinguished Visiting Research Associate, Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics. He has been a Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics, University of Reading andWarwick in the UK, at Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, MIT, University of Washington and Chicago in the US, Universities of Bergamo, Venice and Luiss in Italy, the Universities of Zurich, Cyprus, Tsukuba (Japan), KAIST (Korea), and the National University and the National Technological University of Singapore.

He has been a consultant to a number of leading financial institutions including the Frank Russell Company, Morgan Stanley, Buchanan Partners, RAB Hedge Funds, Gordon Capital, Matcap, Ketchum Trading, and in the gambling area to the BC Lotto Corporation, SCA Insurance, Singapore Pools, Canadian Sports Pool, Keeneland Racetrack, and some racetrack syndicates in Hong Kong, Manila and Australia. His research is in asset-liability management, portfolio theory and practice, security market imperfections, Japanese and Asian financial markets, hedge fund strategies, risk management, sports and lottery investments, and applied stochastic programming. His co-written practitioner paper on the Russell–Yasuda model won second prize in the 1993 Edelman Practice of Management Science Competition. He has been a futures and equity trader and hedge fund and investment manager since 1983. He has published widely in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of OR, Mathematical Programming, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic and Control, JFQA, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Banking and Finance and in many books and special journal issues. Recent books include Applications of Stochastic Programming with S W Wallace, SIAMMPS (2005), Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance, 2nd edition with R G Vickson, World Scientific (2006) and Handbook of Asset and Liability Modeling, Volume 1: Theory and Methodology (2006) and Volume 2: Applications and Case Studies (2007) with S A Zenios, North Holland, Scenarios for Risk Management and Global Investment Strategies with Rachel Ziemba, Wiley (2007), Handbook of Investments:Sports and Lottery Betting Markets, with Donald Hausch, North Holland, 2008, Optimizing the Aging, Retirement and Pensions Dilemma with Marida Bertocchi and Sandra Schwartz (2010, 2015 (2nd edn.) and The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion (2010), with legendary hedge fund trader Edward Thorp and Leonard MacLean, Calendar Anomalies and Arbitrage, The Handbook of Financial Decision Making (with Leonard MacLean) and Stochastic Programming (with Horand Gassman), publishedby World Scientific in 2012 and 2013. In progress is Handbook on the Economics of Wine (with O Ashenfelter, O Gergaud and K Storchmann) and the Handbook Futures Markets (with T Mallaris). He is the series editor for North Holland’s Handbooks in Finance, World Scientific Handbooks in Financial Economics and Books in Finance, and previously was the CORS editor of INFOR and the department of finance editor of Management Science, 1982–1992. He has continued his columns in Wilmott and his 2013 book with Rachel Ziemba have the 2007–2013 columns updated with new material published by World Scientific. Ziemba, along with Hausch, wrote the famous Beat the Racetrack book (1984), which was revised into Dr Z’s Beat the Racetrack (1987), which presented their place and show betting system and the Efficiency of Racetrack Betting Markets (1994, 2008) — the so-called bible of racetrack syndicates. Their 1986 book Betting at the Racetrack extends this efficient inefficient market approach to simple exotic bets. Ziemba is revising BATR into Exotic Betting at the Racetrack (World Scientific) which adds Pick 3, 4, 5, 6, etc., and provides updates to be out in 2018 with real bets he made across the world. Finally he has just completed Travels with Dr Z: The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling, a memoir and financial history of his investment activities over the last fifty years and Great Investment Ideas, which has all twelve of his applied investment papers published in the Journal of Portfolio Management. These hard to find papers cover many important topics including the evaluation of the greatest investors. Perspectives, Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics

Leonard MacLean holds the Herbert S Lamb Chair in Business at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He is cross appointed in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine. MacLean teaches in the areas of statistics and operations management and he has held visiting appointments at Cambridge University, the University of Bergamo, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Royal Roads University, the University of Zimbabwe, and the University of Indonesia. From 1989 to 1995 he served as Director of the School of Business Administration at Dalhousie University. MacLean's research focuses on stochastic models in finance and models for repairable systems in aviation. This work is funded by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada. He has published more than 70 scholarly papers and presented his work at numerous national and international conferences.



About World Scientific Publishing
World Scientific Publishing is a leading international independent publisher of books and journals for the scholarly, research and professional communities. World Scientific collaborates with prestigious organisations like the Nobel Foundation and US National Academies Press to bring high quality academic and professional content to researchers and academics worldwide. The company publishes about 600 books annually and 135 journals in various fields. To find out more about World Scientific, please visit www.worldscientific.com.

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