Course Content

 

We will cover the following material in the course :

Tournament Scheduling

Elementary scheduling and tournament organization.

Ranking

Voting Methods with examples from sports and Arrow's theorem.

matrices, solving systems of linear equations and the methods of Colley and Massey.

Probability and Statistics

Elementary probability and statistics and how we should interpret them.

The Wald Wolfowitz runs test(WWRT) for runs.

Data analysis; elements of running a regression analysis(if time allows)

Game Theory

Game Theory; sero-sum games, optimal strategy, Nash equilibrium.

Biomechanics

velocity, acceleration, projectile motion,

motion of center of gravity(if time permits).