Is Your Favorite Sport Choosing the Best Team Fairly?

Editor's note: this post got pretty long, so I decided to throw baseball into it's own article...stay tuned.  People like sports. They are exciting to watch, fun to follow, and offer great small talk fodder with people whom you have little in common. For a graphical view of why people like sports, consult the image…

Does Brute Force Always Beat Precision?

The date was July 6, 2008. I sleepily crawled out of bed at 9 a.m. to watch the men's final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. If you are a tennis fan, then you probably remember this match. It is widely considered the greatest tennis match of all time. What made it great? Well, it pitted…