Operational research applied to sports
edited by Mike Wright
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
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| Utgitt | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015
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| Omfang | X, 250 s. : fig.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction / Mike Wright -- The optimal aiming line / SP Ladany, JW Humes and GP Sphicas -- Using hypergames to model difficult social issues : an approach to the case of soccer hooliganism / PG Bennett, MR Dando and RG Sharp -- Optimal strategies for the game of darts / D Kohler -- Dynamic programming in one-day cricket - optimal scoring rates / SR Clark -- Scheduling English cricket umpires / MB Wright -- Computer forecasting of Australian rules football for a daily newspaper / SR Clark -- Timetabling county cricket fixtures using a form of Tabu search / M Wright -- A fair method for resetting the target in interrupted one-day cricket matches / FC Duckworth and AJ Lewis -- Measuring the performance of nations at The Summer Olympics using data envelopment analysis / S Lozano, G Villa, F Guerrero and P Cortés -- The professional foul in football : tactics and deterrents / M Wright and N Hirotsu -- A mathematical analysis of badminton / DF Percy -- A branch-and-price algorithm for scheduling sports leagues / D Briskorn and A Drexl -- Optimal challenges in tennis / SR Clark and JM Norman. - Through key research papers from Palgrave's Journal of Operational Research, this book showcases how Operational Research can be applied to sports in a variety of ways, including timetabling fixtures, scheduling officials, forecasting outcomes, optimizing tactics and strategy, analyzing the effects of rules and laws, planning issues, and performance measurement. The introductory chapter provides a broad overview with an examination of how this area has developed over time, and a look at its wide ranging applications to sports including football, tennis, and cricket, amongst others
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| ISBN | 978-1-137-53465-1
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