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Category Archives: Sports
RABBIT SHOWJUMPING.
RABBIT SHOWJUMPING. Mary Jane called my attention to rabbit showjumping. She is interested because she likes cute bunnies, but she knows of my interest in all kinds of sporting competitions. According to this wikipedia entry, the sport was invented in … Continue reading
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REDUCING CONCUSSIONS BY TACKLING THE WAY RUGBY PLAYERS DO.
REDUCING CONCUSSIONS BY TACKLING THE WAY RUGBY PLAYERS DO. This article on the Quartz website by Aamna Mohdin points out that the rate of concussions in professional football is much greater than in rugby (which has not had a one … Continue reading
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THE SPIKE AND FOOTBALL CONCUSSIONS.
THE SPIKE AND FOOTBALL CONCUSSIONS. This article entitled “Football helmets are creating more problems than they solve” by Todd Halslop on the Sporting News website from May of 2015 identifies an important aspect of football’s concussion problem. Halslop begins his … Continue reading
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NOT TAKING CONCUSSIONS SERIOUSLY.
NOT TAKING CONCUSSIONS SERIOUSLY. The football concussion problem has been reflected in a one billion dollar settlement with former players and a new movie, “Concussion”, with Will Smith, a major star. So it is astonishing what new NFL rules on … Continue reading
WHY GOLIATH WAS AN UNDERDOG.
WHY GOLIATH WAS AN UNDERDOG. Here is a TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell at the TEDtalks site in which Gladwell explains that David should have been a heavy favorite in his encounter with Goliath—Goliath brought a knife to a gun … Continue reading
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“WEIRD BRITISH SPORTS”.
“WEIRD BRITISH SPORTS”. My post yesterday was based on a memory stirred by this illustrated article on the Telegraph Expat site. My interest in all sports persists. I have posted a number of times about sports that have developed spontaneously—wife … Continue reading
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SNOOKER AND WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL DARTS.
SNOOKER AND WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL DARTS. There was a time before we had children when Mary Jane and I vacationed in Britain. We would come back to our hotel tired. Twice, I insisted on staying up to watch British sports on … Continue reading
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APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF FORECASTING TO DANIEL MURPHY.
APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF FORECASTING TO DANIEL MURPHY. I arrived at my forecast about Daniel Murphy by giving weight to his OPS for the last 28 days of the regular season. It was 0.854. I then reduced that figure by … Continue reading
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AND A PREDICTION FOR THE WORLD SERIES.
AND A PREDICTION FOR THE WORLD SERIES. It occurs to me that I should try to use some of Professor’s Tetlock’s advice and make a prediction for how Daniel Murphy will do in the World Series. I forecast that Murphy’s … Continue reading
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THE 2015 WORLD SERIES— DANIEL MURPHY’S EXPERIMENT IN RANDOMNESS.
THE 2015 WORLD SERIES—DANIEL MURPHY’S EXPERIMENT IN RANDOMNESS. The 2015 World Series between the Mets and the Royals begins tonight. In addition to the games, there will be an experiment in randomness. I posted here six years ago about the … Continue reading
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