Operational Research Applied to Sports

1. Introduction
Mike Wright

2. The Optimal Aiming Line
Shaul P. Ladany, John W. Humes, Georghios P. Sphicas

3. Using Hypergames to Model Difficult Social Issues: An Approach to the Case of Soccer Hooliganism
P. G. Bennett, M. R. Dando, R. G. Sharp

4. Optimal Strategies for the Game of Darts
David Kohler

5. Dynamic Programming in One-Day Cricket—Optimal Scoring Rates
Stephen R. Clarke

6. Scheduling English Cricket Umpires
M. B. Wright

7. Computer Forecasting of Australian Rules Football for a Daily Newspaper
Stephen R. Clarke

8. Timetabling County Cricket Fixtures Using a Form of Tabu Search
Mike Wright

9. A Fair Method for Resetting the Target in Interrupted One-Day Cricket Matches
F. C. Duckworth, A. J. Lewis

10. Measuring the Performance of Nations at The Summer Olympics Using Data Envelopment Analysis
S. Lozano, G. Villa, F. Guerrero, P. Cortés

11. The Professional Foul in Football: Tactics and Deterrents
M. Wright, N. Hirotsu

12. A Mathematical Analysis of Badminton Scoring Systems
D. F. Percy

13. A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for Scheduling Sport Leagues
D. Briskorn, A. Drexl

14. Optimal Challenges in Tennis
S. R. Clarke, J. M. Norman

Keywords: Business and Management, International Business, Operations Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Operation Research/Decision Theory, International Economics, Popular Science in Sports