| 287 | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
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| 3:15 PM-5:15 PM | Convention Center:E270 |
| Research Consortium |
| Fairness and Optimization in Sports: Can We Do Better? |
| Fairness and optimization in sport competitions became a public concern at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games. The Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were granted another set of gold medals because of an alleged judging scandal. This scandal brought to light the need for greater discussion on how to improve scientifically fairness in sport competitions. Optimization in sports may be defined as determining the “best” solution to the issues in every aspect of sports that may include fairness and optimization in competition structure, optimization of athletic performances, prediction of athletic performances, optimal strategies in sports competitions, optimization in sports management and marketing systems, etc. The research on fairness and optimization in sports has experienced considerable growth in operational research and science fields in the last two decades. The purpose of this symposium is to present the current research on fairness and optimization in sports, in which the measurement specialists and sport scientists in AAHPERD could make future contribution. We will also overview the future direction of fairness and optimization research in sport competitions. |
Keyword(s): athletics/sports, measurement/evaluation, performance
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| Presider: Yuanlong Liu, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI |
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Speakers: |
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Optimization Research in Sports: What’s It All About, and Who Cares?
Yuanlong Liu, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI |
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Evaluating Judges’ Scoring Patterns in Sport: Observed Versus Expected Scores
Marilyn A. Looney, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
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Analytic Approaches to College Football Rankings
Sergiy Butenko1, Panos Pardalos2 and Vladimir Boginski2, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
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