In a pro basketball game, when is a lead safe? This analysis “Safe Leads and Lead Changes in Competitive Team Sports,” Aaron Clauset [pictured here], M. Kogan, and S. Redner, arXiv:1503.03509v1 [stat.AP] 11 Mar 2015. (Thanks to Marcos Carreira for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the University of Colorado, the Santa Fe […]
Tag: sports
The hazard of being an English football league manager
Sports managers, the ones who operate at the highest levels, don’t manage to hang on to their jobs long, says this study: “The hazard of being an English football league manager: empirical estimates for three recent league seasons,” R. Bachan, Barry Reilly, and Robert Witt [pictured here], Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 59, no. […]
Which Kinds of Products Produce Which Kinds of Genitourinary injuries When
The data in this study indicate that, on a gross society basis, male parts are more often injured by products than are female parts, and that sporting goods are often involved, though more often for younger males than older ones, and that, sporting good aside, zippers are often implicated. “Product Related Adult Genitourinary Injuries Treated […]
Breakthrough: “It is in fact a gesture of triumph”
Today’s Heavily Promoted Science-Related Study of the Day (HFSRSD) is described in this press release from its publisher: Evidence for a nonverbal expression of triumph Winning Olympic athletes display of triumph is a globally recognised gesture Many would assume that the positive feelings felt by an athlete after a win would be that of pride, however, […]