With the recent inclusion of inter-league games to professional sports leagues, a natural question is to determine the “best possible” inter-league schedule that retains all of the league’s scheduling constraints to ensure competitive balance and fairness, while minimizing the total travel distance for both economic and environmental efficiency. To answer that question, this paper introduces th...

At present, world sports events become more and more various, but basketball is still one of Chinese youth favorite sports events, Chinese basketball teaching also gradually becomes focus of researching. The paper analyzes Chinese basketball teaching status. Firstly, it studies China university basketball super League cultural background competition rules, it finds out that China university bas...

In earlier work, we showed that, for any given year, England’s secondary school league tables poorly predict schools’ future performances.We generalize our prediction formula to calculate predictions based on multiple years of school league table data and show that this does very little to improve precision. This reinforces the conclusion of our earlier work: school league tables are unreliable...

The RoboCup Humanoid Kidsize League has rocketed into an exceptionally competitive league, supported by recent introduction of the open source hardware and software platforms. Teams must improve substantially their robot teams every year to stay competitive. In addition to the important skills of walking speed, kick stability, and visual acuity, the 2013 season introduced rule changes to test r...