Home • Previous MAMs

Football

• A Markov Method for Ranking College Football Conferences
  by R. Bruce Mattingly and Amber J. Murphy
• How to Kick a Field Goal
  by Daniel C. Isaksen
• Linear Algebra on the Gridiron
  by Daniel C. Isaksen
• A Look at Overtime in the NFL
  by Chris Jones
• Extending the Colley Method to Generate Predictive Football Rankings
  by R. Drew Pasteur
• When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: Retrodictive Rankings in College Football
  by R. Drew Pasteur
• How Deep is Your Playbook?
  by Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn

Baseball

• Surprising Streaks and Playoff Parity: Probability Problems in a Sports Context
  by Rick Cleary
• Sabermetrics: The Past, the Present, and the Future
  by Jim Albert
• Did Humidifying the Baseball Decrease the Number of Homers at Coors Field?
  by Howard Penn
• Streaking: Finding the Probability for a Batting Streak
  by Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le

Track & Field

• The Effects of Wind and Altitude in the 400-m Sprint with Various IAAF Track Geometries
  by Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz
• Mathematical Ranking of the Division III Track and Field Conferences
  by Chris Fisette
• What is the Speed Limit for the Men's 100 Meter Run?
  by Reza Noubary
• May the Best Team Win: Determining the Winner of a Cross Country Race
  by Stephen Szydlik
• Biomechanics of Running and Walking
  by Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich

Golf

• The Science of a Drive
  by Douglas N. Arnold
• Is Tiger Woods a Winner?
  by Scott Berry
• G. H. Hardy’s Golfing Adventure
  by Roland Minton
• Tigermetrics
  by Roland Minton

Soccer

• Bending a Soccer Ball with Math
  by Tim Chartier

Tennis

• Teaching Mathematics and Statistics Using Tennis
  by Reza Noubary
• Percentage Play in Tennis
  by G. Edgar Parker

Basketball

• Bracketology: How can math help?
  by Tim Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy Langville and Kathryn Pedings
• Jump Shot Mathematics
  by Howard Penn
• Down 4 with a Minute to Go
  by G. Edgar Parker

And more sports . . .

• Can Mathematics Make a Difference? Exploring Tire Troubles in NASCAR
  by Cheryll E. Crowe
• Scheduling a Tournament
  by Dalibor Froncek