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What the final seconds of Super Bowl 46 teach us about strategic options, implications, choices, game theory, coordination and behavior under pressure.

Filed under: (american) football by Johannes
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Why marketing is not as easy as it seems and why McLaren won the race in Shanghai.

Filed under: motor sports by Johannes
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Dortmund beating Bayern shows us the way towards the post-ideological future: Being strategic does not mean to tell others what to do. A large part of it is to define where not to tell them what to do.

Filed under: soccer (football) by Johannes
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In many sports, statistics are used to extrapolate what future performance could be. But what does it mean when a baseball player has a ten game hitting streak? Is he more likely to hit in the next game than a player who did not have a hit in the previous game? Or if a basketball player [...]

Filed under: baseball, basketball, misc by Johannes
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