This column features short items about sport research in progress or in print, highlights of recent or upcoming conferences, hot topics on mailing lists, and anything else of interest to the sport-science community.
Content can range from ground-breaking to gossipy.
Items will be edited and bounced back to you for approval. In many sports there seems to be a tendency for athletes and teams to do better when they compete at home. An article in the latest issue of the on-line Journal of Statistical Education shows how to analyze the phenomenon. The authors provide and analyze real data from the University of Iowa Hawkeyes' 1997 Big Ten Conference season. Looks like the team is more offensive at home, and their defensive play doesn't slip.