Sports Statistics

Campbell in front of Cargo. Photo by Marco Starr '14. Copyright Red Cloud Indian School.

Sports Statistics

By Marco Starr ‘14

One of the most unique classes at Red Cloud is Sports Statistics. Matt Campbell teaches his students about the stats of players in the NFL, NBA, and MLB.

Matt Campbell is in the Social Studies department. He teaches U.S. History to the sophomores and Sports Statistics to those seniors who have chosen it as an elective. This class is all about the statistics behind sports. Students learn about probability and statistics in real-life situations. Campbell can calculate all the stats of two teams and estimate who will be victorious of the two teams. This is usually done by using the Pythagorean Winning Percentage. Campbell is a huge sports fan. He enjoys watching the NFL, NBA, MLB, and college football.

In this class, Campbell has created a fantasy football league for his students, where they can test out their statistical knowledge. His students include a group of seniors: Ryan Hussman, Lorrell Goings, Colton Sierra, Joshua Black Feather, Floyd Brings Plenty, Marco Starr, Brannon Cousin, Caine Ghost Bear, Jaycherie Little, and Scott Two Bulls.

Floyd Brings Plenty is a student of Matt Campbell. “My favorite thing about this class is that we get to participate in a fantasy league, which I have not done before,” said Brings Plenty. Most of the students really enjoy this class. “I enjoy this class because we get to learn a bit more about sports, mainly football and basketball,” added Brings Plenty. So far the students have learned how to use the Pythagorean Winning Percentage to predict a winner of two teams. “We learned how statistics can help a team get better, and how you can use the Pythagorean Winning Percentage to predict how teams will do in the playoffs, and who will win,” said Brings Plenty. “ I like that Matt enjoys teaching this class. He said it was his favorite class. I’m really enjoying the fantasy league so far. Hopefully I do well, and I can’t wait for the NBA fantasy to start up,” Brings Plenty stated.