Dressage is an Olympic equestrian discipline with rules governed by The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). After questions arose regarding dressage scoring during the 2008 Olympics, the FEI undertook studies of dressage scoring at international equestrian competitions in Europe. These...

The assessment of batsmen in cricket is largely based upon their average score: a Test average of 50 or over provides a rule-of-thumb for distinguishing great players from the merely good; Donald Bradman, with the highest Test average ever achieved (99.94), is generally regarded as the greatest...

Classification method in a team chess championship has long been an issue of great concern. In quest of the golden standard," Chess Federation officials applied many different ranking methods. As part of the improvements," significant changes were introduced at the 2009 Serbia Team Chess...

This work extends the work of Coleman (2005) which provides a football rankings system that minimizes game score violations. The modified model, called AccuV, developed in this paper incorporates several other aspects of most rankings systems including: strength of schedule, margin of victory,...

The aim of this study was to establish the reliability and validity of a coding system for measuring serve and return of serve locations in tennis. A notational analysis of mens and womens singles matches at the 2008 Australian Open was undertaken. The results revealed that the inter-rater...

In the National Basketball Association (NBA), there are high expectations for the post-season among the teams having the league's best regular season records. However, not every team who plays great basketball in the regular season will succeed in the playoffs. The Phoenix Suns, for example, had...

Two related studies compared the consistency of two different methods of interpreting and applying scoring criteria in Muay Thai that are normally used by officials in the UK and that are used by officials in Thailand. In the first study, levels of consistency were determined by comparing...

A previous article (Trono, 2005) documented how two different rating systems "outperformed" the Las Vegas betting line on NCAA bowl games when they individually disagreed with the line on which team should be favored. This article addresses several shortcomings in one of the two aforementioned...

A plethora of statistics have been proposed to measure the effectiveness of pitchers in Major League Baseball. While many of these are quite traditional (e.g., ERA, wins), some have gained currency only recently (e.g., WHIP, K/BB). Some of these metrics may have predictive power, but it is...

Home advantage was evaluated using data from three national netball competitions: The Commonwealth Bank Trophy which ran from 1997 to 2007 in Australia, The National Bank Cup which ran from 1998 to 2007 in New Zealand, and The Co-operative Netball Superleague which ran from 2005/06 to 2008/09 in...