50 years of OR in sport

Wright, M. B.

doi:10.1057/jors.2008.170

Cited by 71 publications

(41 citation statements)

References 96 publications

(77 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…There are several surveys available (e.g. Ribeiro (2012); Kendall et al (2010);Wright (2009);Rasmussen and Trick (2008)) on sports scheduling which, some would argue, is one of the most important aspects of designing fair sporting competitions.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

When sports rules go awry

Kendall

Lenten

2017

European Journal of Operational Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Mike Wright (Wright, M. OR analysis of sporting rules -A survey. European Journal of Operational Research, 232(1):1-8, 2014 ) recently presented a survey of sporting rules from an Operational Research (OR) perspective. He surveyed 21 sports, which consider the rules of sports and tournaments and whether changes have led to unintended consequences. The paper concludes: "Overall, it would seem that this is just a taster and there may be plenty more such studies to come". In this paper we present one such study. This is an interdisciplinary paper, which cuts across economics, sport and operational research (OR). We recognize that the paper could have been published in any of these disciplines but for the sake of continuity with the paper that motivated this study, we wanted to publish this paper in an OR journal. We look at specific examples where the rules of sports have led to unforeseen and/or unwanted consequences. We hope that the paper will be especially useful to sports administrators, helping them to review what has not previously worked and also encouraging them to engage with the scientific community when considering making changes.We believe that this is the first time that such a comprehensive review of sporting rules, which have led to unexpected consequences, has been published in the scientific literature.

show abstract

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

When sports rules go awry

Kendall

Lenten

2017

European Journal of Operational Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Operations researchers have had an interest in using OR in sport from early on (Wright, 2009). A thorough review of sport applications up to 1976 was given by Ladany and Machol (1977).…”

Section: Or In Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent developments in operations research: A personal perspective

Ittmann¹

2009

ORiON

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

At the 25th anniversary of ORiON it is appropriate to look at the advances in OR during the last 25 years. This paper focuses on what has happened on the international front -there is not a focus on OR developments in South Africa as such. By doing this two observations immediatly follow. Firstly, there have been very few new techniques or tools developed over this period. The classic tools and main techniques of OR are still what they were 25 years ago although vast developments and extensions of these have occurred. Secondly, OR practice has extended into almost all industries as well as all areas of human activity. It is almost impossible to highlight all these advances and give a comprehensive overview -an endeavour has rather been made to give a personal perspective on some of these advances.

show abstract

“…Many published papers feature recurring themes such as sports scheduling, tactics and strategy. Such papers have been recently surveyed by Rasmussen and Trick (2008), Wright (2009) and Kendall et al (2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

OR analysis of sporting rules – A survey

Wright

2014

European Journal of Operational Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper surveys the academic OR/analytics literature describing research into the laws and rules of sports and sporting competitions. The literature is divided into post hoc analyses and proposals for future changes, and is also divided into laws/rules of sports themselves and rules/organisation of tournaments or competitions.The survey outlines a large number of studies covering 21 sports in many parts of the world. The analytical approaches most commonly used are found to be various forms of regression analysis and simulation. Issues highlighted by this survey include the different views of what constitutes fairness and the frequency with which changes produce unintended consequences.

show abstract

50 years of OR in sport

Cited by 71 publications

References 96 publications

When sports rules go awry

When sports rules go awry

Recent developments in operations research: A personal perspective

OR analysis of sporting rules – A survey

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About