Preface
Part I. Baseball: 1. Sabermetrics: the past, the present, and the future Jim Albert
2. Surprising streaks and playoff parity: probability problems in a sports context Rick Cleary
3. Did humidifying the baseball decrease the number of homers at Coors Field? Howard Penn
4. Streaking: finding the probability for a batting streak Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le
Part II. Basketball: 5. Bracketology: how can math help? Tim Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy Langville and Kathryn Pedings
6. Down 4 with a minute to go G. Edgar Parker
7. Jump shot mathematics Howard Penn
Part III. Football: 8. How deep is your playbook? Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn
9. A look at overtime in the NFL Chris Jones
10. Extending the Colley method to generate predictive football rankings R. Drew Pasteur
11. When perfect isn't good enough: retrodictive rankings in college football R. Drew Pasteur
Part IV. Golf: 12. The science of a drive Douglas N. Arnold
13. Is Tiger Woods a winner? Scott M. Berry
14. G. H. Hardy's golfing adventure Roland Minton
15. Tigermetrics Roland Minton
Part V. NASCAR: 16. Can mathematics make a difference? Exploring tire troubles in NASCAR Cheryll E. Crowe
Part VI. Scheduling: 17. Scheduling a tournament Dalibor Froncek
Part VII. Soccer: 18. Bending a soccer ball with math Tim Chartier
Part VIII. Tennis: 19. Teaching mathematics and statistics using tennis Reza Noubary
20. Percentage play in tennis G. Edgar Parker
Part IX. Track and Field: 21. The effects of altitude in the 400m sprint with various IAAF track geometries Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz
22. Mathematical ranking of the Division III Track and Field Conferences Chris Fisette
23. What is the speed limit for Men's 100 Meter Dash? Reza Noubary
24. May the best team win: determining the winner of a cross country race Stephen Szydlik
25. Biomechanics of running and walking Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich.
