The Brigham Young University Women's Volleyball Team recorded and rated all skills (pass, set, attack, etc.) and recorded rally outcomes (point for BYU, rally continues, point for opponent) for the entire 2006 home volleyball season. Only sequences of events occurring on BYU's side of the net...

Election into Major League Baseball's (MLB) National Hall of Fame (HOF) often sparks debate among the fans, media, players, managers, and other members in the baseball community. Since the HOF members must be elected by a committee of baseball sportswriters and other entities, the prediction of...

Introduction: The Mitchell Report to the Commissioner of Baseball sought to characterize the extent to which the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) proliferated through baseball during the last 15 years. While the Report was not primarily initiated to expose individual players, it...

The objective of this research is to compare average slugging percentages between each of the various types of counts in baseball. Data is collected from 1260 MLB games played between March 20, 2008 and April 20, 2008. It is found that the average slugging percentage is significantly lower in...

`What is the offensive value of Player A?´ Of all the metrics that sabermetricians have developed to attempt to answer that question, OPS (on base percentage plus slugging percentage) has been one of the first for the mainstream media to slowly embrace as an alternative to batting average....

A new 3D motion capture technology is changing Golf instruction and research, bringing us closer than ever to understanding the complex yet coordinated motions involved in a successful Golf swing. This paper highlights a study undertaken by the Golf Advantage School at Pinehurst using this new...

In many sport competitions athletes, teams, or countries are evaluated based on several variables. The strong assumptions underlying traditional 'linear weight' scoring systems (that the relative importance, interactions and linearizing transformations of the variables are known) can often not...

New Growth Theory is the science of research, knowledge, and designs. The foundation of New Growth Theory is that technological change, improvement in the instructions for mixing resources, lies at the heart of growth and improvement. Designs are the instructions that turn resources into useful...

Introduction: The Mitchell Report to the Commissioner of Baseball sought to characterize the extent to which the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) proliferated through baseball during the last 15 years. While the Report was not primarily initiated to expose individual players, it...

Protecting the quarterback is an integral part of the passing game in the National Football league, yet the relationship between the abilities of an individual lineman and the effectiveness of a passing game remains unexplored. One of the principal reasons for this lack of study is the absence...