March Blog Challenge Results: O.R. and Sports; April’s Blog Challenge: O.R. and Healthcare
Opening day, the Final Four, The 2011 Cricket World Cup, soccer, golf, basketball, NASCAR, and even bull riding, this weekend in sports has it all. Our bloggers offered their view on incorporating O.R. into sports, as a way to improve everything from scheduling to maximizing profits on sports betting. The intersection of O.R. and sports offers an opportunity for us to spread the word about the benefits of operations research and analytics to an audience that might not usually understand (or care) how math can make the [sports] world a better place.
A special shoutout to Laura McLay’s VCU Rams for overcoming the odds and destroying everyone’s carefully crafted brackets. Enjoy the show!
In honor of our new upcoming thematic conference in June, our INFORMS April Blog Challenge is O.R. and Healthcare! E-mail your entries to graphics@mail.informs.org.
Read our entries to the March Challenge O.R. and Sports
- Why is SpORts So Popular?, Patricia Randall
- The Appeal of Operations Research and Sports, Michael Trick
- Prediction of sporting events: A Scientific Approach, Graham Kendall
- Baseball and Decision Analytics, Larry D’Agostino
- Forming Competitive Teams, Paul Rubin
- Analytics and Cricket - VI: Improving the Cricket World-cup Schedule, Shiva Subramanian
- The Braess Paradox, Broadway, and Basketball, Anna Nagurney
- Da’s logisch (That’s logical), John Poppelaars
Extra Credit for two postings goes to Thiego Serra
- Making it for 2014 Cup and 2016 Olympics: Scheduling Tasks with CP, part I, and
- Modeling Local Politicians with Global Constraints; or Making it for 2014 Cup and 2016 Olympics: Scheduling Tasks with CP, part II
David Smith and Laura McLay deserve Special Extra Credit for 3 postings each!
David Smith:
Laura McLay:
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