Anthology of Statistics in Sports Jack Cockburn This special issue of the

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Anthology of Statistics in Sports Jack Cockburn This special issue of theThe worlds of sports fans and statisticians collide in this interesting and accessible collection of previously published articles on the use of statistics to analyze sports, that the editors have thoughtfully culled from a variety of American Statistical Association (ASA) publications. Heavily weighted in the areas of competition (rating players and teams, evaluating strategies for victory), the articles vary in mathematical complexity, but most will