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Today, I’d like to write a short note to begin to answer one simple question: which sport is the most conservative? By conservative I mean a sport where the favourite team or athlete wins much more often than the other. As this is quite a large problem, which had been adressed for NFL, I’ll start with some results about some racquet sports, tennis and badminton. I won’t use real data but rather focus on some simulations in order to evaluate…

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Disclaimer : I don’t pretend to be a pro rider nor a sport doctor/physiologist, just a data scientist who sometimes likes to apply mathematical modeling to understand some real-world situations 🙂 Are all slopes only for lightweights ? I’m a bike enthusiast and I used to race (although I was far from being a champion!). I noticed during the training sessions among teammates that had approximately equivalent physical abilities than mine that our ways of performing were very different: every…

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