Title The application of operations-research methods to athletic Extra-point strategy in football Decision theorist on the player's bench The

economics of the National Hockey League Collegiate football scores The value of field position A day at the races An economic analysis of team movements in professional sports College football scores and the negative binomial distribution A model of a football FG kicker On the optimal time to pull the goalie Different serving strategies in tennis Alternatives rules for drafting in professional sports An analysis of professional football scores Anti-trust and the links - estimating a golfer's score The most important points in tennis Playoff structures in the NHL A model for evaluating player performance Analysis of baseball as a markov process Analysis of scores of Ivy League football games Optimal strategies on 4th down Prisoners' dilemmas and professional sports drafts Reducing travelling costs and player fatigue Constructing timetables for sport competitions Geography, games and graphs Sports and mathematics: a definition and delineation Solving a sports scheduling problem with preassignments Performance and attendance at professional team sports Using bivalent integer programming to select teams Note: more gymnastics Pulling the goalie revisited Greatest records in sports A new points system for soccer leagues Performance measure for baseball College and professional football scores: a multiple The World Hockey Association and player exploitation in the NHL A micrcomputer-based DSS The great shootout Location and survival in the National Hockey League Winning games versus winning championships: The economics SUCCES92: A DSS for scheduling the Olympic Games The search for the ultimate baseball statistic The streak of streaks The cold facts about the 'hot hand' in basketball It's OK to believe in the 'hot hand' The 'hot hand': Statistical reality or cognitive illusion? Fair bets on winners in professional golf Salary evaluation for professional baseball players Science and golf On the probability of winning a football game Popes, blizzard and walleyed pike

Computer-aided scheduling for a sport league The summer of '41: Dimaggio's streak, Williams' .406 Parity in baseball: Stability of evolving systems? The Great Gretzky Streak shooter - the sequel Predicting professional sports game outcomes Using probability and statistics to analyze tournaments The demand for major league baseball: A test of the uncertainty The best NFL field goal kickers: Are they lucky or good? Using LP to determine post-facto consistency What sort of tournament should the World Series be? How much more efficiently can humans run than swim? Factors affecting runners' marathon performance Answering questions about baseball using statistics Allocating games for the NHL using integer programming Stochastic snooker Operations research in sports Consistency and predictability of football results Resizing triathlons for fairness Baseball's earned run average: What kind of an average is it? Baseball: Pitching no-hitters A paradox in the ranking of figure skaters Forecasting baseball games The rookie draft and competitive balance professional football Ranking college football teams: A neural network approach Overtime or shootout The evolution of draft lotteries in professional sports Supporting the choice of the sports fishing site Who's #1 in college football? The great streak A critical look at some analyses of MLB salaries The effectiveness of OT in the NHL Improved NCAA basketball tournament modeling More probability models for the NCAA regional A markov chain analysis of the game of jai alai A classificatory system of anxiety-inducing situations Time management in sports: ball control and other myths A comparison of leg before wicket rates Two of baseball's great marks: Can they ever be broken? Meddling with 1996 Olympic results Lessons from sports statistics Putting around with stats A markov chain approach to baseball Modeling scores in the Premier League Who is the greatest rebounder of all time? How to play office pools if you must Heavy defeats in tennis: Psychological momentum or random.. Are salaries in the NHL related to nationality? When to rush a 'behind' in Australian rules football College basketball upsets Scheduling a major college basketball conference Optimal sequential decisions

An efficient, objective technique for selecting How should you order players in a shoot-out? Football strategy: go for it! It's good! An analysis of the probability of success It takes a hot goalie to raise the Stanley Cup The home-run hitting of Mike Schmidt Measuring hockey's special teams efficiency Move over, Roger Maris: Breaking baseball's most famous record Win-loss records in baseball Intentional walk in baseball To run or not? Some dynamic programming models The penalty kick in soccer OR/MS rocks the house A punt returner location problem Criminal violence of NFL players compared to the Designing a college football playoff system Building a baseball simulation game Drive for show and putt for dough Testing students for drug use Refining the point(s)-after-touchdown decision My triple crown (March madness) Olympic winning performances Should he stay or should he go? The traveling baseball fan The super bowl theory The economics of sports facilities Math, baseball and the electoral college Modeling offensive ability in baseball Career trajectories in baseball Assessing time trends in sex differences in swimming & running Career records for all modern position players eligible Modeling curling as a markov process Return of the missed FG in Canadian football Modeling madness The sweet science of baseball The riskiest sports Identifying the NCAA tournament "dance card" Optimal (?) bidding in a basketball pool Minimax play at Wimbledon Is the USGA golf handicap system equitable? Coach Markov pulls goalie Poisson How ferocious is Tiger? Turn! Turn! Turn! Were the 1996-2000 Yankees the best baseball team ever? How should team captains order golfers on the final day Baseball, optimization and the world wide web Winning games in Canadian football Chasing Hank Aaron's home run record It's 4th down and what does the Bellman equation say Who is the greatest hitter of them all? College football rankings: Do the computers know best? Winning isn't everything corruption in sumo wrestling

OR in Sport Strategic considerations in the coaching of football Hitting with runners in scoring position Gold medals, protests 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating Who won the Sydney 2000 Olympics? An allometric approach Dynamic modelling and prediction of English football league On the comparison between standard tournaments An analysis of decathlon data Did Lennox Lewis beat Evander Holyfield?. Rain rules for limited overs cricket and probabilities of victory Exploratory analysis of European PGA statistics Outcome uncertainty and attendance demand in sport Optimal strategy in casino stud poker The optimal positioning of infielders in baseball Losing to win: Tournament incentives in the NBA A baseball statistics course Data management, exploratory data analysis and regression. An improved award system for soccer A madness to the method (RPI) Basketball statistics: A matter of adjustment The Great one A natural generalization of the win-loss rating system The Canadians should have won!? Mavericks depend on decimal points Red Sox: Stats the way to go Batty over cricket Team formation: matching quality supply and quality demand Endurance in speed skating: The development of world records Scheduling sports competitions on multiple venues Olympic ranking based on a zero sum gains DEA model Manager to go? Performance dips Dutch football Persistence in sequences of football match results Forecasting the winner of a tennis match A simulation model for football championships Bodychecking age debate flares up once again Young hockey players banned from bodychecking Introduction: Sport and Computers Play ball - equally: Math programming lends a hand to LL baseball For aging runners, a formula makes time stand still The economic design of sporting contests Preferred scenarios in the sport of curling Special OPS Subconsciously, athletes may play like statisticians No baseball experience required To go or not to go OR on the ball Aggregating expert ratings using preference-neutral weights Forces to be reckoned with Win, lose or draw: A Markov chain analysis of overtime Matchmakers vs. the Machine One hundred and eighty! - or less

Primary author Mottley, Charles Porter, Richard Bierman, Harold Jones, J.C.H. Mosteller, Frederick Carter, Virgil Bratley, Paul Quirk, James Pollard, R. Irving, Gary Morrison, Donald Hannan, Edward Price, Bertram Rosner, Bernard Levy, Ferdinand N. Morris, Carl Monahan, James Price, Bertram Trueman, Richard Haberman, Shelby Carter, Virgil Brams, Steven Bean, James Schreuder, J.A.M. de Werra, D. Schutz, R.W. Tan, Y.Y. Schofield, John A. Ellis, Peter M. Land, A. Morrison, Donald Wasil Mehrez, Abraham Magazine, Mike Wagner V, G. Oliver Jones, J.C.H. Evans, James Scott, Dan Jones, J.C.H. Whitney, James D. Andreu, Rafael Hoffman, Tony Gould, Stephen Tversky, Amos Larkey, Patrick D. Tversky, Amos Larkey, Patrick D. Lackritz, James R. Cochran, A.J. Stern, Hal Kim, Albert

Sport General Football Football Hockey Football Football Horse racing Baseball Football Football Hockey Tennis Football Football Golf (legal case) Tennis Hockey Basketball Baseball Football Football General Basketball General General General Football General Gymnastics Gymnastics Hockey General Soccer Baseball Football Hockey Baseball Basketball Hockey Several sports (baseball mainly) General Baseball Baseball Basketball Basketball Basketball Golf Baseball Golf Football Baseball

Ferland, Jacques Berry, Scott Chatterjee, Sangit Janssen, Christian T.L. Forthofer, Ronald Cooper, Harris Ladwig, J.A. Knowles, Glenn Morrison, Donald Zappe, Chris Hurley, Bill Wainer, Howard Buoncristiani, John James, Bill Fleurent, Charles Percy, David Gerchak, Yigal Phillips, Haynes Wainer, Howard Edwards, Christopher T. Frohlich, Cliff Bring, Johan Kaigh, W.D. Grier, Kevin B. Wilson, Rick Hurley, Bill Gerchak, Yigal Kangas, Jyrki Stern, Hal Warrack, Giles Hoaglin, David C. Schutz, R.W. Carlin, Bradley Schwertman, Neil Byrne, Philip Dunn, John Sackrowitz, Harold Crowe, S.M. Lackritz, James R. Sommers, Paul Mosteller, Frederick Riccio, Lucius J. Bukiet, Bruce Lee, Alan J. Brooks, George Breiter, David J. Jackson, David Williams, Bill Clarke, S.R. Stern, Hal Nemhauser, George Hurley, Bill

Hockey Baseball Baseball Hockey Basketball Football Baseball (college) Baseball Football Baseball Baseball Swimming, running Track and field Baseball Hockey Snooker General Football Triathlon Baseball Baseball Figure skating Baseball Football Football Hockey Basketball Fishing Football Baseball Baseball Hockey Basketball Basketball Jai alai General Football Cricket Baseball Olympics (general) General Golf Baseball Soccer Basketball Basketball Tennis Hockey Football Basketball Basketball Football

Hurley, Bill Hurley, Bill Stern, Hal Bilder, Christopher Morrison, Donald Albert, Jim Anderson-Cook, Christine M. Simonoff, Jeffrey S. Saltzman Steinsaltz Clarke, S.R. Brimberg, Jack Kostuk, Kent Brimberg, Jack Blumstein, Alfred Carlin, Bradley Hastings, Kevin J. Berry, Scott Feinstein, Charles Sackrowitz, Harold Berry, Scott Stefani, Raymond Poulsen, Rolf Cleary, Rick Sommers, Paul Siegfried, John Onion, Amanda Berry, Scott Schall, Teddy Wainer, Howard Cochran, James J. Kostuk, Kent Willoughby, Keith Horner, Peter Verducci, Tom Collins, Sarah Coleman, B. Jay Kaplan, Edward Walker, Mark Kupper, Lawrence Zaman, Zia Berry, Scott Berry, Scott Simon, Gary A. Hurley, Bill Adler, Ilan Willoughby, Keith Bisgaier, Steven Romer, David Gallian, Joseph Martinich, Joseph Duggan, Mark

Football Hockey Football Football Hockey Baseball Hockey Baseball Baseball Baseball Cricket Soccer Curling Football Football Football Baseball Golf General Football Basketball General Soccer Baseball Football General Baseball Baseball Baseball Swimming, running Baseball Curling Football Basketball Baseball General Basketball Basketball Tennis Golf Hockey Golf Baseball Baseball Golf Baseball Football Baseball Football Baseball Football Sumo wrestling

Potts, Chris Brimberg, Jack Albert, Jim Berry, Scott Morton, R. Hugh Crowder, Martin Marchand, Eric Cox, Trevor F. Lee, Herbert K.H. Preston, Ian Ketzscher, Robert Forrest, David Haigh, John Levine, Alan Taylor, Beck A. Albert, Jim Cochran, James J. Fernandez-Cantelli, E. Wolff, Alexander Ryan, Thomas P. Berry, Scott Redmond, Charles Carroll, Maureen Leonhardt, David (W. Winston, J. Sagarin) Antonen, Mel (Bill James) Lewis, Tony Boon, Bart H. Kuper, Gerard H. Urban, Timothy L. Estellita Lins, Marcos P. Bruinshoofd, Allard Dobson, Stephen Klaassen, Franc J.G.M. Koning, Ruud H. Wilcox, Dave n/a Koning, Ruud H. Vasko, Francis Leonhardt, David Szymanski, Stefan Willoughby, Keith Scwarz, Alan Leonhardt, David Chen, Alberta Sweet, David Ribeiro, Celso C. Horowitz, Ira Hirshberg, Charles Jones, Michael A. Stoff, Bruce n/a

General Football Baseball Figure skating Olympics (general) Soccer General Track and field Boxing Cricket Golf Soccer Poker Baseball Basketball Baseball Baseball Soccer Basketball Basketball Hockey General Figure skating Basketball Baseball Cricket Soccer, volleyball Speed skating Football Olympics (general) Soccer Soccer Tennis Soccer Hockey Hockey General Baseball (Little League) Running (marathon) General Curling Baseball Sports (general) Baseball Football Soccer (plus baseball) Football General Football Baseball Darts

Methodology Letter to the editor Decision analysis Probability analysis Economic analysis Probability analysis Expected value analysis Chi square analysis Economic analysis Statistical analysis Regression Poisson model Markov chain/ game theory Probability analysis/ Markov chains Regression/ probability analysis Statistical analysis Probability analysis Probability analysis Regression Markov process Regression Expected value analysis Game theory Statistical analysis Graph theory Graph theory Discussion (overview) Scheduling algorithm Regression Linear programming Linear programming Poisson model AHP Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Regression Regression DSS Dynamic programming Log-linear model Regression DSS Regression analysis Statistical analysis (not many numbers) Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Regression Statistical analysis Probability analysis Discussion (scheduling)

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General (one-page overview) Regression Markov analysis, regression Statistical analysis Log-linear model Markov process Probability analysis Statistical analysis Logistic regression Dynamic programming Regression Regression Probability analysis Probability, calculus Logistic regression Statistical analysis, teaching Regression analysis Poisson probability analysis Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Matrix algebra Scoring/ ranking methods Statistical analysis (player rating system) Statistical analysis Scheduling, stats (in the event of rain) Integer programming Calculus (log-linear) Goal programming Data Envelopment Analysis Statistical analysis Regression, simulation Logistic regression Simulation Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Discussion (overview) Optimization Regression Econometric analysis Statistical analysis Statistical analysis Bayesian statistical analysis General (importance of statistics) Discussion (general audience) Timetabling, elimination (discussion) Linear programming Review of two books Markov chain Scheduling Statistical analysis

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