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New article on Sports Statistics Published by PAIS PhDs
PAIS PhD students David Yarrow and Matthias ('Matt') Kranke have recently published a co-authored article on sports statistics in Volume 9, Issue 5, of the Journal of Cultural Economy.
From a performativity angle, David and Matt argue that sports statistics are more consequential than we often think. Such statistics neither merely reflect indicators of athletic performance, as 'instrumentalists' like to believe, nor do they merely reinforce the commercialisation of sports, as 'romanticists' tend to presume. The article allows us to put the pervasive quantification of professional sports in perspective and to understand how the use of statistics may shape their evolution.