Recreational Sport

Recreational Sport
Author: Barcelona, Robert
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 145042239X

Recreational Sport provides readers with a foundation in the concepts of recreational sport. Based on current research and offering real-world applications, it will help readers understand how to design, deliver, and manage recreational sport programs no matter what setting they find themselves in.

Blue Dream

Blue Dream
Author: Ryan Luttrell
Publisher: Creators Publishing
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1945630450

Blue Dream is the firsthand story of how Ryan Luttrell spent his days in class at the University of Memphis and his nights researching and influencing the school’s next basketball team. At the time Blue Dream started, Ryan was working on a master’s degree in sports commerce, and what a perfect time, as the Memphis Tigers were ranked #1, a dream come true from his childhood. He religiously followed the team and one day decided to attend a practice with his 7-year-old son, Carter. Overnight, he became friends with the new recruits and assistant coaches, and as a result, he was privy to the most intimate secrets of how Calipari and his staff worked and maneuvered in the underworld of recruiting. Ryan seemed to be the only outsider allowed into this world, and the information was flowing so frequently that he began reporting for several local news outlets, including one that became an ESPN affiliate. After completing his master’s, he enrolled in law school and dived headfirst into the Tigers’ world, calling and texting with boosters to name the next head coach of the university, Josh Pastner. Ryan had moved from being a fan to being an insider to now being an influencer of the entire program and began having daily meetings at Pastner’s new office. Then the NCAA changed everything, as it seemed convinced that Ryan coerced athletes from his tournaments to commit to Memphis. Over the course of three separate investigations (all of which he was cleared in), NCAA coaches stopped talking to Ryan, and his relationship with Pastner and his staff became more than strained. At the same time, Ryan began to see the effects that his involvement in this recruiting world were having on everyone around him, especially his now-11-year-old son, Carter, who was intertwined in the world of basketball, right in front of Ryan. Ryan began to realize that he wasn’t going to change the way that recruiting works for college basketball programs. He had to find a way out. He needed to wake up from this Blue Dream…

Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics

Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics
Author: Tom Adams
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0429943954

Twenty-four million people wager nearly $3 billion on college basketball pools each year, but few are aware that winning strategies have been developed by researchers at Harvard, Yale, and other universities over the past two decades. Bad advice from media sources and even our own psychological inclinations are often a bigger obstacle to winning than our pool opponents. Profit opportunities are missed and most brackets submitted to pools don’t have a breakeven chance to win money before the tournament begins. Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics is both an easy-to-use tip sheet to improve your winning odds and an intellectual history of how statistical reasoning has been applied to the bracket pool using standard and innovative methods. It covers bracket improvement methods ranging from those that require only the information in the seeded bracket to sophisticated estimation techniques available via online simulations. Included are: Prominently displayed bracket improvement tips based on the published research A history of the origins of the bracket pool A history of bracket improvement methods and their results in play Historical sketches and background information on the mathematical and statistical methods that have been used in bracket analysis A source list of good bracket pool advice available each year that seeks to be comprehensive Warnings about common bad advice that will hurt your chances Tom Adams’ work presenting bracket improvement methods has been featured in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and SmartMoney magazine.

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Publisher: Soffer Publishing
Total Pages: 79
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ISBN: 8274403150

Organizing Successful Tournaments, 4E

Organizing Successful Tournaments, 4E
Author: John Byl
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1450460275

Create great schedules in minutes! Organizing Successful Tournaments contains the tools for structuring, scheduling, and administering leagues and tournaments. All types of competitions are covered: single and double elimination, multilevel, ladder, pyramid, level rotation, and round-robin. Includes web access to over 2,700 customizable templates.

Basketball For Dummies

Basketball For Dummies
Author: Richard Phelps
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2011-09-19
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1118092678

The easy way to get the ins, outs, and intrigue on this beloved sport The National Basketball Association (NBA), with 30 teams and an average attendance of more than 17,000 spectators per game, is the richest and most popular basketball league — and arguably the most viewed American sport — in the world. This new edition of Basketball For Dummies not only covers the rules and regulations of the NBA, but offers coverage on the WNBA, NCAA, and international basketball leagues. Basketball For Dummies is a valuable resource to the many fans of this beloved sport, covering everything from players and personalities in the game to rules, regulations, and equipment. Completely updated with information and intrigue that's occurred in the sport since publication of the previous edition, Basketball For Dummies gets you up to speed on everything from NCAA Tournament brackets to college players en route to the NBA. Coverage of the rules and regulations of the NBA Interesting topics like LeBron the Phenom, ESPN'S influence on the NBA, and the UCONN women's basketball dynasty Digger's take on John Wooden Whether you're a basketball player or a courtside spectator, Basketball For Dummies is a slam-dunk of information and intrigue for anyone who loves the sport.

Bracketology

Bracketology
Author: Joe Lunardi
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1641255803

Lunardi delves into the early days of Bracketology, details its growth, and dispels the myths of the process The NCAA Tournament has become one of the most popular sports events in the country, consuming fans for weeks with the run to the Final Four and ultimately the crowning of the champion of college hoops.? Each March, millions of Americans fill out their bracket in the hopes of correctly predicting the future. Yet, there is no true Madness without the oft-debated question about what teams should be seeded where—from the Power-5 Blue Blood with some early season stumbles on their resume to the mid-major that rampaged through their less competitive conference season—and the inventor of Bracketology himself, Joe Lunardi, now reveals the mystery and science behind the legend. While going in depth on his ever-evolving predictive formula, Lunardi compares great teams from different eras with intriguing results, talks to the biggest names in college basketball about their perception of Bracketology (both good and bad), and looks ahead to the future of the sport and how Bracketology will help shape the conversation. This fascinating book is a must-read for college hoops fans and anyone who has aspired to win their yearly office pool.

The Boardgamer Volume 8

The Boardgamer Volume 8
Author: Bruce A. Monnin
Publisher: Past Into Print Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

The Boardgamer magazine was a quarterly magazine devoted primarily, but not exclusively, to the coverage of Avalon Hill / Victory Games titles and to other aspects of the boardgaming hobby. Initially, The Boardgamer’s publication ran concurrently with Avalon Hill’s house magazine, The General, but instead of focusing on new releases, it devoted coverage to those classic, Avalon Hill games which no longer graced the pages of The General. Following the cessation of The General in June 1998, The Boardgamer was the primary periodical dedicated to the titles from AH/VG, until its final issue in 2004. The contents of this volume consists of: Strategy And Tactics In The Civil War - And Variant Rules The First Spoke - Where To Start In Air Baron War At Sea Series Replay - A Game On The AREA Ladder Mission SPB1 - Breakfast At The Café Gondree French Dune - Highlights Of The New Version Leaders And Morale - In Panzerblitz / Panzer Leader A.R.E.A. News - Technology Crunch Strategies For Winning At 7th Fleet - A Look At Scenarios 1-5 The Skies Of Caen Escorts Over Leipzig Escort To Muenster: An Ace Is Born A Legend's First Kill - Four Airforce / Dauntless Scenarios Strategies For Winning At 7th Fleet - A Look At Scenarios #6 Through #9 More New Scenarios - For Israeli Defense Force Battle Of Porto Praya - A Wooden Ships & Iron Men Scenario Adel Verpflichtet, By Hook Or By Crook, By Fair Means Or Foul - A Lot Of Fun, No Matter How You Say It! Adel Verpflichtet - Series Replay Modified 501 City-Fight-In-Four - A Modified Up Front Scenario Jutland In The Baltic - Battles Between the Germans and Russians The French Sellout - Not Your Average Advanced Third Reich Series Replay Potpourri For The Gamer - DEN, W&P, FE, VITP/WAS, SUB & FT 1999 March Madness Sweet Sixteen - Men’s and Women’s Teams Termoli - Panzer Leader Situations The Star of Africa - Air Force Scenarios Featuring Hans Joachim Marseille Unit ID Numbers For Counters - From The Boardgamer'’s Special Panzer Leader Issue Insert: Countersheet for Jutland Variant In Short, The Longest Day - An Old Monster Gets A Facelift Brethren Of The Coast - A Variant For Blackbeard The “Liberator” of Europe - The B24J Joins the Queen of the Skies A New (Inter)face - For Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader Point Of Decision - Allied Turn 2 Strategies in Victory In The Pacific AREA Scoring System For Board Games - An Open Letter to Tournament GM’s & Game Club Presidents