Albert (Bowling Green State U.) and Koning (U. of Groningen, The Netherlands) assemble 14 chapters surveying current research in statistics and sports. Contributors from the US, Canada, Europe,
and New Zealand working in math, business, economics, statistics, and econometrics fields explain how statistical thinking can be used to answer questions about specific sports: running,
Olympic events, soccer, Scottish League football, baseball, tennis, football, and hockey. Chapters explore competition, betting, myths, outcome measures, home advantage, event attendance, world
rankings and records, and models such as time series, linear regression, ordered probit regression, factor analysis, and generalized linear models. Articles are aimed at general readers and
researchers. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
