Stuart Coles

Sticky Problem 1 Q: What's brown and sticky? Scroll down for answer: |||||||||| A: A stick. Ok, terrible. So how about this? Sticky Problem 2 If I...

The Opta Million I'm writing this post shortly before the start of the World Cup, for which Opta have posted the following competition: Entry to the...

Introduction Some followers of this blog will know that my own personal involvement with Smartodds stems from an academic paper I co-authored with...

Introduction I wish I could take credit for the title of this post, but I can't. It's the title of an article in The Economist that discusses the...

Introduction This is the first of two posts discussing an experiment that I invited Smartodds employees and associates to participate in. The whole...

All that Glitters is not gold   (William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 7) IBM has teamed up with Wimbledon for a number of...

Maybe I'm wrong and it's always been this way, but it seems to me that there's a trend for football journalists to make more use of statistics in...

Football, like all sports, has many 'old chestnuts' - beliefs about the game that have folklore status and are widely shared as being...

A common theme to the posts in this blog is that Statistics and statistical thinking have applications that are many and varied. Usually, in one way...