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Neil Lanham: using computers in sport

Introduction In Football Analytics: Now and Beyond, Daniel Memmert, Jürgen Perl and Robert Rein noted that when computers became available in the late 1970s...

Exploring history

Marv Dunphy's thesis on John Wooden explores historical methodology in the unfolding of a biography (link). In his introduction, Marv looks at the 'great...

Working with data in sport

Introduction There is a lot of discussion at the moment about data analysis and its role in sport. In addition to social media conversations about...

One of those memorable days

The University of Canberra held its graduation ceremony at the Australian Institute of Sport Arena on Wednesday, 9 October 2019 (link). It is a...

Change and Leadership

My recent posts have looked at changes in roles in sporting organisations. I am struck by the diversity of roles in these organisations. What...

Robin Poke's Thesis on Australian Rowing

Robin Poke's thesis is with the binders. This marks a remarkable step in Robin's journey to a doctorate at the University of Canberra. He...

How to account for performance?

Introduction Biography plays a fundamental role in how each of us observes and records performance. In addition to our practices of observation, each of us...

Data intensive sport

Stephen Downes posted about the mutating metric machinery of higher education this morning. His post contained links to Ben Williamson's discussion of the mutating metric...

Critical friendship as everyday #RUOK

Here in Australia, it is #RUOK Day today. It is the 10th anniversary of the start of #RUOK. The aim of the organisation that coordinates...

Random walks and momentum shifts in the 2018 Super Netball Grand Final

Introduction The Sunshine Coast Lightning defeated West Coast Fever in the 2018 Super Netball Grand Final. Prior to the game, I had identified some performance bandwidth...

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