Publications
Baker, R.D. and McHale, I.G. (to appear). Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games, International Journal of Forecasting.
Percy, DF 2013, 'Generic handicapping for paralympic sports' , IMA Journal of Management Mathematics . (In Press)
Akhtar, S and Scarf, PA 2012, 'Forecasting test cricket match outcomes in play' , International Journal of Forecasting, 28 (3) , pp. 632-643
Asif and McHale, I.G. (2012). A modified Duckworth-Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket, European Journal of Operational Research.
Percy, DF 2012, 'The optimal dartboard?' , Mathematics Today, 48 . (In Press)
Carmichael, F , McHale, I.G. and Thomas, D 2011, 'Maintaining market position: Team performance, revenue and wage expenditure in the English Premier League' , Bulletin of Economic Research, 63 (4) , pp. 464-497.
James, MD and Osborn, G 2011, 'London 2012 and the impact of the UK’s Olympic and Paralympic legislation: protecting commerce or preserving culture?' , The Modern Law Review, 74 (3) , pp. 410-429.
McHale, I.G. and Morton, A 2011, 'A Bradley-Terry type model for forecasting tennis match results' , International Journal of Forecasting, 27 (2), pp. 619-630.
McHale, I.G. Scarf, P.A. & D.E. Folker (2011). On the development of a soccer player performance rating system for the English Premier League, Interfaces 10.1287/inte.1100.0589.
McHale, I.G. and Scarf, PA 2011, 'Modelling the dependence of goals scored by opposing teams in international soccer matches', Statistical Modelling, 11 (3) , pp. 219-236.
Scarf, PA and Akhtar, S 2011, 'An analysis of strategy in the first three innings in test cricket: declaration and the follow-on', Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62 (11) , pp. 1931-1940.
James, MD and Osborn, G 2010, 'Consuming the Olympics: the fan, the rights holder and the law', Sport & Society - the Summer Olympics through the lens of social science.
McHale, I.G. 2010, 'Assessing the fairness of the golf handicapping system in the UK' , Journal of Sports Sciences, 28 (10) , pp. 1033-1041.
Scarf, PA and Yusof, MM 2010, 'A numerical study of tournament structure and seeding policy for the soccer World Cup Finals' , Statistica Neerlandica, 65 (1) , pp. 43-57.
Scarf, PA , Shi, X and Akhtar, S 2010, 'On the distribution of runs scored and batting strategy in test cricket', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 174 (2) , pp. 471-497.
Jobson, S , Passfield, L, Atkinson, G, Barton, G and Scarf, PA 2009, 'The analysis and utilization of cycling training data' , Sports Medicine, 39 (10) , pp. 833-844.
Percy, DF 2009, 'A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems' , Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60 , pp. 63-71.
Percy, DF and Warner, DB 2009, 'Evaluating relative performances in disabled sports competitions' , IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 20 (2) , pp. 185-199. Item not available from this repository.
Scarf, PA , Yusof, M and Bilbao, M 2009, 'A numerical study of designs for sporting contests' , European Journal of Operational Research, 198 (1) , pp. 190-198.
Brady, C., Bolchover, D. and Sturgess, B. (2008). Managing in the talent economy: the football model for business, California Management Review, 50, 58-72.
Scarf, PA and SHI, X 2008, 'The importance of a match in a tournament' , Computers & Operations Research, 35 (7) , pp. 2406-2418.
Forrest, DK and McHale, I.G. 2007, 'Anyone for tennis (betting)?' , The European Journal of Finance, 13 (8) , pp. 751-768.
McHale, I.G. and Scarf, PA 2007, 'Modelling soccer matches using bivariate discrete distributions with general dependence structure' , Statistica Neerlandica, 61 (4) , pp. 432-445.
Baker, RD and Scarf, PA 2006, 'Predicting the outcomes of annual sporting contests.' , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C Applied Statistics, 55 (2) , pp. 225-239.
James, MD 2006, 'Liability for professional athletes' injuries: a comparative analysis of where the risk lies' , Web Journal of Current Legal Issues (1).
James, MD and Geey, D 2006, 'The Premier League: European Commission broadcasting negotiations' , Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, 4 (1).
James, MD and Pearson, G 2006, 'Football banning orders: analysing their use in court' , The Journal of Criminal Law, 70 (6) , pp. 509-530.
McArdle, D and James, MD 2005, 'Are you experienced? 'Playing cultures', sporting rules and personal injury litigation after Caldwell v Maguire' , Tort Law Review, 13 (3) , pp. 193-211.
McHale, I.G. and Forrest, DK 2005, 'The importance of recent scores in a forecasting model for professional golf tournaments' , IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 16 (2) , pp. 131-140.
James, MD and McArdle, D 2004, 'Player violence or violent players? Vicarious liability for sports participants' , Tort Law Review, 12 (3) , pp. 131-146.
James, MD 2003, 'Referees, scrums and spinal injuries' , New Law Journal , pp. 166-167.
