Coming in at number 6 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is German Formula One racing legend Michael Schumacher. According to the F1 website, “Statistically, [Schumacher] is the greatest driver the sport has ever seen.” And statistically, they are quite right. Schumacher won the Formula One World Championship five years in a row…
Coming in at number 7 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is French soccer champion Zinedine Zidane. How could one possibly have a top 10 sportspeople of the decade list without a soccer player, easily the most popular sport in the world. And French legend Zidane has been the best player, in our…
Coming in at number 8 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is American tennis ace Serena Williams. Currently ranked number one in the world, Serena Williams is the younger sister of Venus who has dominated the female tennis tour in the 2000s. In total she has won a staggering 23 grand slams and…
Coming in at number 9 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele. Ever since the movie The gods must be crazy did the world wake up to the fact that the Africans have a special ability to run, run quick, and run very long distances. In the 1990’s, Ethiopian long…
Coming in at number 10 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is American Basketball Player Shaquille O’Neal. No player in basketball has had the same influence as the “shaq” in the past ten years. Standing at a daunting 7 foot 1 (216 cm) and weighing 325 pounds (147kg), the shaq is one of…
Federer? Tiger Woods? Tendulkar? Marion Jones? Who do you think will make the top 10 sportspeople of the last ten years? Sportpunter will be counting down the list. We are looking at all sports from Javelin to Judo, from baseball to boxing. We’ve looked deep and hard, weighing up all the variables using Sportpunter’s latest…
Details how I was able to always stay connected to the internet while travelling. Allowing me to visit many countries while still making profits from sports gambling.
In the last article about sports models I talked about how as human beings we can often find patterns in randomness. I want to talk a little more about this in the real world. One of my friends recently had a baby which they named “Jordan”. Its cool to give surnames as first names at…
Models…..What are they and what are they good for? No I’m not talking about the model that you see in the picture, that’s just merely an opportunity to include her. No, I’m talking about statistical models. What are they? Well according to Wikipedia, a statistical model is “a set of mathematical equations which describe the…
Along with out normal Soccer model, we also predict odds for the premiership as well as finishing dead last. Here are the probabilities and associated bets for the premiership after lasts round for several of the leagues Australian A Leauge Team P(Prem) Odds Overlay Gold Coast United 18.5% 4 – Brisbane Roar 16.4% 9 47.5%…
