Stuart Coles

In the spirit of Christmas, this post contains a statistical puzzle and a link to other puzzles that, while not explicitly statistical themselves,...

I'm a terrible parent. My 18 year-old son will almost always beat me at anything: chess, skiing, cards, cycling... pretty much everything. Except...

The Question In the last post I mentioned a problem that I'd discussed with Anders, who had kindly written to me after following the blog for a...

Though it's had a couple of lapses and the format has evolved, 'Smartodds loves Statistics' is 5 years old now. In that time there have been 210...

From a statistical point of view, a striking fact about the recent trail of Lucy Letby for the murder and attempted murder of multiple babies in her...

Introduction As a postscript to the previous post, I set the following puzzle: You've got a match ticket in a small section of the Gtech Community...

Introduction Being able to count the number of different ways events can occur is a fundamental skill that's necessary for many types of probability...

This post links three icons. Icon 1: Erling Haaland Basic facts: Age: 22 years...

Racism in Italian Football There's plenty of evidence of individual episodes of racism in Italian football stadiums: here, here, here, here.......

A Data Revolution Data is at the heart of everything we do at Smartodds. And increasingly, the analysis of relevant data is also an integral part of...

The Numbers Don't Lie A while back, during the World Cup, Paul W directed me to an article in the Athletic. It was published just before the...

Using Statistics to Enhance Sports Betting: A Football (Soccer) Perspective Sports betting has become increasingly popular in recent years, with...