Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

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• Cruel and Unusual Punishment? An Analysis of Point Deduction in European Association Football Leagues
  by Nik J. Cunniffe & Alex R. Cook [Downloadable!]
• Can Recruiting Rankings Predict the Success of NCAA Division I Football Teams? An Examination of the Relationships among Rivals and Scouts Recruiting Rankings and Jeff Sagarin End-of-Season Ratings in Collegiate Football
  by Trent J. Herda & Eric D. Ryan & Jason M. DeFreitas & Pablo B. Costa & Ashley A. Walter & Katherine M. Hoge & Joseph P. Weir & Joel T. Cramer [Downloadable!]
• Was Bradman Denied His Prime?
  by Paul J. Bracewell & Farinaz Farhadieh & Clint A. Jowett & Don G. R. Forbes & Denny H. Meyer [Downloadable!]
• Analyses of Elite Swimming Performances and Their Respective Between-Gender Differences over Time
  by Michael B. Johnson & William A. Edmonds & Sachin Jain & Javier Cavazos Jr. [Downloadable!]
• Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence from Soccer
  by Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau & Diego Comin [Downloadable!]

• Differentiating the Top English Premier League Football Clubs from the Rest of the Pack: Identifying the Keys to Success
  by Joel Oberstone [Downloadable!]
• The Effect of the Scoring System Changes in Volleyball: A Model and an Empirical Test
  by Balazs Kovacs [Downloadable!]
• NCAA Tournament Games: The Real Nitty-Gritty
  by Jay Coleman & Allen K. Lynch [Downloadable!]
• Monte Carlo Tennis: A Stochastic Markov Chain Model
  by Paul K. Newton & Kamran Aslam [Downloadable!]
• Dominance, Intimidation, and 'Choking' on the PGA Tour
  by Robert A. Connolly & Richard J. Rendleman [Downloadable!]
• A Parametric Control Chart for Monitoring Individual Batting Performances in Cricket
  by Paul J. Bracewell & Katya Ruggiero [Downloadable!]
• Testing for Bias and Manipulation in the National Basketball Association Playoffs
  by Timothy Zimmer & Todd H. Kuethe [Downloadable!]
• Estimating Quality in Home Advantage and Competitive Balance in the Portuguese Football League
  by António Cardoso Marques [Downloadable!]
• Modeling Tactical Changes of Formation in Association Football as a Non-Zero-Sum Game
  by Nobuyoshi Hirotsu & Masamitsu Ito & Chikara Miyaji & Koji Hamano & Azuma Taguchi [Downloadable!]
• Research on the Prediction of the likely Winners of the Euro 2008 Football Tournament
  by Ferda Halicioglu [Downloadable!]

• Pythagoras and the National Hockey League
  by James J. Cochran & Rob Blackstock [Downloadable!]
• Scramble Teams for the Pinehurst Terrapin Classic
  by Michael O. Ball & Russell Halper [Downloadable!]
• A New Handicapping System for Golf
  by Tim B. Swartz [Downloadable!]
• Using Simulation to Estimate the Impact of Baserunning Ability in Baseball
  by Ben S. Baumer [Downloadable!]
• Keeping the Hitter Off Balance: Mixed Strategies in Baseball
  by Jesse Weinstein-Gould [Downloadable!]
• `If the Team Doesn't Win, Nobody Wins:' A Team-Level Analysis of Pay and Performance Relationships in Major League Baseball
  by Nicholas S. Miceli & Alan D. Huber [Downloadable!]
• Modeling Baseball Player Ability with a Nested Dirichlet Distribution
  by Brad Null [Downloadable!]
• Chasing DiMaggio: Streaks in Simulated Seasons Using Non-Constant At-Bats
  by David M. Rockoff & Philip A. Yates [Downloadable!]
• Assessing Methods for College Football Rankings
  by Ryan Gill & Jerome Keating [Downloadable!]
• Optimizing Football Game Play Calling
  by Jeremy D. Jordan & Sharif H. Melouk & Marcus B. Perry [Downloadable!]
• A Statistical Analysis of NFL Quarterback Rating Variables
  by Derek Stimel [Downloadable!]

• Match Play: Using Statistical Methods to Categorize PGA Tour Players' Careers
  by Martin L. Puterman & Stefan M. Wittman [Downloadable!]
• Defining the Style of Play in the NHL: An Application of Cluster Analysis
  by Claude B. Vincent & Byron Eastman [Downloadable!]
• The X-Factor and Its Relationship to Golfing Performance
  by Michael H. Cole & Paul N. Grimshaw [Downloadable!]
• Estimating the Effect of the Red Card in Soccer: When to Commit an Offense in Exchange for Preventing a Goal Opportunity
  by Jan Vecer & Frantisek Kopriva & Tomoyuki Ichiba [Downloadable!]
• Predicting NBA Games Using Neural Networks
  by Bernard Loeffelholz & Earl Bednar & Kenneth W. Bauer [Downloadable!]
• Predicting Baseball Hall of Fame Membership using a Radial Basis Function Network
  by Lloyd Smith & James Downey [Downloadable!]
• Determining the Evenness of Domestic Sporting Competition Using a Generic Rating Engine
  by Paul J. Bracewell & Don G. R. Forbes & Clint A. Jowett & Heath I. J. Kitson [Downloadable!]
• Offense-Defense Approach to Ranking Team Sports
  by Anjela Y. Govan & Amy N. Langville & Carl D. Meyer [Downloadable!]
• Analysis and Evolution of Efficiency in the Spanish Soccer League (2000/01 – 2007/08)
  by Ramon Sala-Garrido & Vicente Liern Carrión & Aurelio Martinez Esteve & José E. Boscá [Downloadable!]
• Coach Succession and Team Performance: The Impact of Ability and Timing -- Swedish Ice Hockey Data
  by Khalik Salman & Leif Arnesson & Ghazi Shukur [Downloadable!]
• Importance of Teammate Fit: Frescoball Example
  by Dean Oliver & Mike N. Fienen [Downloadable!]

• Determining Hall of Fame Status for Major League Baseball Using an Artificial Neural Network
  by William A. Young II & William S. Holland & Gary R. Weckman [Downloadable!]
• Linear Inference for Paired Comparisons
  by David H. Annis & J. Wade Davis [Downloadable!]
• Slugging Percentage in Differing Baseball Counts
  by Tharemy Hopkins & Rhonda C. Magel [Downloadable!]
• Shifting the 'Goal Posts': Optimizing the Allocation of Competition Points for Sporting Contests
  by Niven Winchester [Downloadable!]

• U-Scores for Multivariate Data in Sports
  by Knut M. Wittkowski & Tingting Song & Kent Anderson & John E. Daniels [Downloadable!]
• Univariate and Multivariate Autoregressive Time Series Models of Offensive Baseball Performance: 1901-2005
  by David Kaplan [Downloadable!]
• A Note on Team-Specific Home Advantage in the NBA
  by Marshall B. Jones [Downloadable!]
• Did Steroid Use Enhance the Performance of the Mitchell Batters? The Effect of Alleged Performance Enhancing Drug Use on Offensive Performance from 1995 to 2007
  by Brian J. Schmotzer & Jeff Switchenko & Patrick D. Kilgo [Downloadable!]
• A New Application of Linear Modeling in the Prediction of College Football Bowl Outcomes and the Development of Team Ratings
  by Brady T. West & Madhur Lamsal [Downloadable!]
• Reweighting the Bowl Championship Series
  by Susan Buchman & Joseph B. Kadane [Downloadable!]
• Quantifying NFL Coaching: A Proof of New Growth Theory
  by Kevin P. Braig [Downloadable!]

• Probability Formulas and Statistical Analysis in Tennis
  by A. James O'Malley [Downloadable!]
• Skill Evaluation in Women's Volleyball
  by Lindsay W. Florence & Gilbert W. Fellingham & Pat R. Vehrs & Nina P. Mortensen [Downloadable!]
• Composite Poisson Models for Goal Scoring
  by Phil Everson & Paul S. Goldsmith-Pinkham [Downloadable!]
• Improving Golf Instruction with the iClub Motion Capture Technology
  by Arun M. Mehta & Cyrus R. Mehta [Downloadable!]
• Probability and Statistical Models for Racing
  by Victor S. Lo & John Bacon-Shone [Downloadable!]
• Isolating the Effect of Individual Linemen on the Passing Game in the National Football League
  by Benjamin C. Alamar & Jesse Weinstein-Gould [Downloadable!]
• The Passing Premium Puzzle Revisited
  by Duane W. Rockerbie [Downloadable!]
• A Simple and Flexible Rating Method for Predicting Success in the NCAA Basketball Tournament: Updated Results from 2007
  by Brady T. West [Downloadable!]
• Racial Bias in the NBA: Implications in Betting Markets
  by Tim Larsen & Joe Price & Justin Wolfers [Downloadable!]
• The Role of Rest in the NBA Home-Court Advantage
  by Oliver A. Entine & Dylan S. Small [Downloadable!]
• In Search of the "Last-Ups" Advantage in Baseball: A Game-Theoretic Approach
  by Theodore L. Turocy [Downloadable!]
• Improving Major League Baseball Park Factor Estimates
  by Rohit A. Acharya & Alexander J. Ahmed & Alexander N. D'Amour & Haibo Lu & Carl N. Morris & Bradley D. Oglevee & Andrew W. Peterson & Robert N. Swift [Downloadable!]
• Why On-Base Percentage is a Better Indicator of Future Performance than Batting Average: An Algebraic Proof
  by Ben S. Baumer [Downloadable!]
• Estimating Situational Effects on OPS
  by Philip A. Yates [Downloadable!]
• New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports
  by Scott Evans & Mark Glickman [Downloadable!]

• The Curse of Scoreless Draws in Soccer: The Relationship with a Team's Offensive, Defensive, and Overall Performance
  by Ben Van Calster & Tim Smits & Sabine Van Huffel [Downloadable!]
• Streaky Hitting in Baseball
  by Jim Albert [Downloadable!]
• Data Clustering for Fitting Parameters of a Markov Chain Model of Multi-Game Playoff Series
  by Christopher M. Rump [Downloadable!]
• Estimated Age Effects in Baseball
  by Ray C. Fair [Downloadable!]

• The Ryder Cup: Are Balanced Four-Ball Pairings Optimal?
  by William J. Hurley [Downloadable!]
• Grouping of Decathlon Disciplines
  by Anne Woolf & Les Ansley & Penelope Bidgood [Downloadable!]
• Position Play in Carom Billiards as a Markov Process
  by Mathieu Bouville [Downloadable!]
• Does Effectiveness of Skill in Complex I Predict Win in Men’s Olympic Volleyball Games?
  by Eleni Zetou & Athanasios Moustakidis & Nikolaos Tsigilis & Andromahi Komninakidou [Downloadable!]
• Home Advantage in the NBA as a Game-Long Process
  by Marshall B. Jones [Downloadable!]
• Using Box-Scores to Determine a Position's Contribution to Winning Basketball Games
  by Garritt L. Page & Gilbert W. Fellingham & C. Shane Reese [Downloadable!]

• On Probabilistic Excitement of Sports Games
  by Jan Vecer & Tomoyuki Ichiba & Mladen Laudanovic [Downloadable!]
• Inter-arrival Times of Goals in Ice Hockey
  by Andrew C. Thomas [Downloadable!]
• A Simple Random Walk Model for Predicting Track and Field World Records
  by Jeff T. Terpstra & Nicholas D. Schauer [Downloadable!]
• Football Rating Systems for Top-Level Competition: A Critical Survey
  by Ray Stefani & Richard Pollard [Downloadable!]
• Evaluating Throwing Ability in Baseball
  by Matthew Carruth & Shane Jensen [Downloadable!]
• A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics
  by Justin Kubatko & Dean Oliver & Kevin Pelton & Dan T. Rosenbaum [Downloadable!]

• A Player Selection Heuristic for a Sports League Draft
  by Michael J. Fry & Andrew W. Lundberg & Jeffrey W. Ohlmann [Downloadable!]
• Growing and Moving the Game: Effects of MLB Expansion and Team Relocation 1950-2004
  by Kevin G. Quinn & Paul B. Bursik [Downloadable!]
• An Effective Nonlinear Rewards-Based Ranking System
  by John A. Trono [Downloadable!]
• Dimension Reduction for Hybrid Paired Comparison Models
  by David H. Annis [Downloadable!]
• An Analysis of the Defense First Strategy in College Football Overtime Games
  by Peter A. Rosen & Rick L. Wilson [Downloadable!]

• Probabilistic Analysis of a Table Tennis Game
  by Reza D. Noubary [Downloadable!]
• A Potential Function Approach to the Flow of Play in Soccer
  by David R. Brillinger [Downloadable!]
• Improved Draws for Highland Dance
  by Tim B. Swartz [Downloadable!]
• An Analysis of the Home-Field Advantage in Major League Baseball Using Logit Models: Evidence from the 2004 and 2005 Seasons
  by William Levernier & Anthony G. Barilla [Downloadable!]

• The Passing Premium Puzzle
  by Benjamin C. Alamar [Downloadable!]
• Review of Wages of Wins: A Reply
  by David J. Berri & Martin B. Schmidt & Stacey L. Brook [Downloadable!]
• Baseball Errors
  by David E. Kalist & Stephen J. Spurr [Downloadable!]
• Using Variable Reduction Techniques and Tolerance Intervals to Summarise a Fitness Testing Battery in Soccer
  by John Newell & Kenny McMillan & Stanley Grant & Irene Riach & Jim Henry & Roddy Macdonald [Downloadable!]
• Parity and Predictability of Competitions
  by Eli Ben-Naim & Federico Vazquez & Sidney Redner [Downloadable!]

• Review of Wages of Wins
  by Roland Beech [Downloadable!]
• Who Controls the Plate? Isolating the Pitcher/Batter Subgame
  by Benjamin Alamar Ph.D. & Jeff Ma & Gabriel M. Desjardins & Lucas Ruprecht [Downloadable!]
• A Simple and Flexible Rating Method for Predicting Success in the NCAA Basketball Tournament
  by Brady T. West [Downloadable!]
• A Variance Decomposition of Individual Offensive Baseball Performance
  by David Kaplan [Downloadable!]
• Which Ball is the Roundest? - A Suggested Tournament Stability Index
  by Torbjörn Lundh [Downloadable!]

• Modeling Tactical Changes of Formation in Association Football as a Zero-Sum Game
  by Nobuyoshi Hirotsu & Mike B. Wright [Downloadable!]
• Direct Measurement of Punch Force During Six Professional Boxing Matches
  by John D. Pierce Jr. & Kirk A. Reinbold & Barry C. Lyngard & Robert J. Goldman & Christopher M. Pastore [Downloadable!]
• Hierarchical Linear Modeling of Individual Athlete Performance-Affect Relationships
  by Richard L. Tate & Gershon Tenenbaum & Ayesha Delpish [Downloadable!]
• Optimal End-Game Strategy in Basketball
  by David H. Annis [Downloadable!]

• The Impact of Puck Possession and Location on Ice Hockey Strategy
  by Andrew C. Thomas [Downloadable!]
• The Effects of Home-Away Sequencing on the Length of Best-of-Seven Game Playoff Series
  by Christopher M. Rump [Downloadable!]
• In Favor of A Quantitative Boycott of the Bowl Championship Series
  by H S. Stern [Downloadable!]
• The “Fair” Triathlon: Equating Standard Deviations Using Bayesian Nonlinear Models
  by S. McKay Curtis & Gilbert W. Fellingham & C. Shane Reese [Downloadable!]
• Pitching Statistics, Talent and Luck, and the Best Strikeout Seasons of All-Time
  by James Albert [Downloadable!]
• There’s No Place Like Home: Estimating Intra-Conference Home Field Advantage in College Football Using a Bayesian Piecewise Linear Model
  by Byron J. Gajewski [Downloadable!]

• Scientific Football 2005 (by KC Joyner)
  by Paraag Marathe [Downloadable!]
• Determinants of Success in the Olympic Decathlon: Some Statistical Evidence
  by Ian Christopher Kenny & Dan Sprevak & Craig Sharp & Colin Boreham [Downloadable!]
• A Procedure for Prediction of Sports Records
  by Reza D. Noubary [Downloadable!]
• Hybrid Paired Comparison Analysis, with Applications to the Ranking of College Football Teams
  by David H. Annis & Bruce A. Craig [Downloadable!]
• Football's Hilbert Problems
  by Aaron Schatz [Downloadable!]
• A First Step
  by Benjamin Alamar Ph.D. [Downloadable!]

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