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Professor Stephen Clarke

PhD, MA, BSc (hons), Dip Ed.

Professor

Tel: 61 3 9214 3569

Office: BA1018

Email: sclarke@swin.edu.au
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Biography

Research interests in mathematical modelling in sport and gambling. Published over 130 papers in conference proceedings and international journals, mainly on statistical and mathematical modelling in sport, concentrating on forecasting, strategy and home advantage. His research covers many sports, with papers on cricket, squash, tennis, Australian rules football, soccer, rugby, golf, volleyball, and the Olympic Games. In recent years his work has found applications in gaming, with papers on dog racing, roulette, video poker and sports gambling. Associated with Champion Data, the official collector and provider of Australian Football League statistics, and Sportsbet21, provider of real time odds for betting on Cricket and Tennis. Best known locally for his Australian rules football computer tipping predictions, which have appeared for many years in various media outlets. His research work gains regular coverage in the press, radio and television.

Research Interests

  • Mathematical and statistical modelling in sport, gambling, computer prediction AFL football

    • Publications Include

  • Clarke, S.R. (2007). Studying variability in Statistics via performance measures in sport. In Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute 56th Session. Lisbon
  • Clarke, S.R. (2007). Increasing your media profile by publicising sports research In IMA sport 2007: First International conference on Mathematics. D. Percy, P Scarf & C Robinson (Eds.) The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Salford, UK.pp44-49.
  • Clarke, S.R., M Bailey and S. Yelas (2008). Successful applications of statistical modeling to betting markets. Mathematics Today, 44 (1) February 2008, 38-44.
  • Bailey, M. and S. R. Clarke (2008). Predicting the number of runs per over in one-day international cricket matches. In Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Sport, J. Hammond, (Ed.), MathSport: Tweed Heads. pp. 23-21.
  • Bailey, M. and S. R. Clarke (2008). A comparison of distributions for the runs scored per over in one-day international cricket matches. In Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Sport, J. Hammond, (Ed.), MathSport: Tweed Heads. pp. 32-36.
  • Bailey, M. and S. R. Clarke (2008). Assessing goodness of fit and optimal data size for a brownlow prediction model. In Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Sport, J. Hammond, (Ed.), MathSport: Tweed Heads. pp. 100-107.
  • John M Norman, Stephen R Clarke & C B Stride. Criteria for a tournament: the World Snooker Championship. Journal of the Operational Research Society.(In Press)
  • Stephen Charke's Publications in Swinburne Research Bank

    • Awards and Grants

  • 1988 Operational Research Society President’s medal for paper on Dynamic Programming in One-Day Cricket.


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