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Finding the volume of a rugby ball (prolate spheroid) With the rugby union World Cup currently underway I thought I'd try and work out the volume of a rugby ball using some calculus. This method works similarly for American football and Australian rules football. The approach is to consider the rugby ball as an... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs2M7gWSbTg Simulating a Football Season This is a nice example of how statistics are used in modeling - similar techniques are used when gambling companies are creating odds or when computer game designers are making football manager games. We start with some statistics. The soccer stats site has the data we need from the 2018-19... Continue Reading →
Statistics to win penalty shoot-outs The last World Cup was a relatively rare one for England, with no heroic defeat on penalties, as normally seems to happen. England are in fact the worst country of any of the major footballing nations at taking penalties, having won only 1 out of 6 shoot-outs at the Euros... Continue Reading →
Statistics to win penalty shoot-outs With the World Cup nearly upon us we can look forward to another heroic defeat on penalties by England. England are in fact the worst country of any of the major footballing nations at taking penalties, having won only 1 out of 7 shoot-outs at the Euros and World Cup.... Continue Reading →
Following on from the data released a couple of weeks ago about Premier League clubs' financial data, the data from the Championship (England's second tier) have just been published by the Guardian. These are from 12 months ago (the most recent data available). The Championship is famously very competitive - so it will be interesting... Continue Reading →
Premier League Finances - Debt and Wages This is a great article from the Guardian DataBlog analysing the finances for last season's Premier League clubs. As the Guardian says, "More than two thirds of the Premier League's record £2.4bn income in 2011-12 was paid out in wages, according to the most recently published accounts of... Continue Reading →