On the Clock, Best Bet to Draft Cyberdefensive Linemen: Federal Regulation of Sports Betting from a Cybersecurity Perspective

On May 14, 2018, Justice Alito delivered the majority opinion for the United States Supreme Court in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Professional and Amateur Protection Act (PASPA), a twenty-six-year-old federal statute, was deemed unconstitutional; thus, this decision allows state legislatures to legalize sports betting within their borders. With many states independently legalizing sports gambling, the regulatory landscape throughout the country is becoming a patchwork of state statutes. Additionally, top tier sporting organizations heavily depend on data analytics to formulate game plan strategy, train efficiently, rehab player injuries, gauge team and player performance, etc. The popularity of sports gambling continues to grow in the United States, and the proliferation of data usage will only expand as teams and players seek a competitive advantage. However, sports teams and athletes are not the only entities seeking an edge, as hackers will attempt to steal private and proprietary data for a significant edge when placing sports bets. It is imperative that leagues, teams, sports betting operators, and legislators must not overlook the cybersecurity component when regulating the industry. This Note argues that federal regulatory oversight is the most favorable approach from a cybersecurity perspective, and states can build on this framework as they see fit. Federal agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), and federal law enforcement agencies, are well-versed in persistent cybersecurity issues and compliance regulations. A central, federal regulatory model is advantageous to the growth and integrity of the blossoming sports gambling industry and the established sports industry

Temporal-adaptive Euler/Navier-Stokes algorithm for unsteady aerodynamic analysis of airfoils using unstructured dynamic meshes

A temporal adaptive algorithm for the time-integration of the two-dimensional Euler or Navier-Stokes equations is presented. The flow solver involves an upwind flux-split spatial discretization for the convective terms and central differencing for the shear-stress and heat flux terms on an unstructured mesh of triangles. The temporal adaptive algorithm is a time-accurate integration procedure which allows flows with high spatial and temporal gradients to be computed efficiently by advancing each grid cell near its maximum allowable time step. Results indicate that an appreciable computational savings can be achieved for both inviscid and viscous unsteady airfoil problems using unstructured meshes without degrading spatial or temporal accuracy

Dispensable Statistics

It felt like a blind-side bodycheck to read in the The Great Gretzky, Chance, Winter 1991, that, Thus, despite his exceptional talent, despite his leadership on and off the ice, despite what he has meant to the team, Gretzky was not indispensable to the Oilers

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Negotiations and Issues for Congress

[Excerpt] The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) among 11, and perhaps more, countries. The United States and 10 other countries of the Asia-Pacific region— Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam—are negotiating the text of the FTA. Canada and Mexico participated for the first time in the Auckland round of negotiations in December 2012, and Japan recently announced it would seek to participate in the negotiations. With 29 chapters under negotiation, the TPP partners envision the agreement to be “comprehensive and high-standard,” in that they seek to eliminate tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade in goods, services, and agriculture, and to establish rules on a wide range of issues including foreign direct investment and other economic activities. They also strive to create a “21st-century agreement” that addresses new and cross-cutting issues presented by an increasingly globalized economy. The TPP draws congressional interest on a number of fronts. Congress would have to approve implementing legislation for U.S. commitments under the agreement to enter into force. In addition, under long-established executive-legislative practice, the Administration notifies and consults with congressional leaders, before, during, and after trade agreements have been negotiated. Furthermore, the TPP will likely affect a range of sectors and regions of the U.S. economy of direct interest to Members of Congress and could influence the shape and path of U.S. trade policy for the foreseeable future. This report examines the issues related to the proposed TPP, the state and substance of the negotiations (to the degree that the information is publically available), the specific areas under negotiation, the policy and economic contexts in which the TPP would fit, and the issues for Congress that the TPP presents. The report will be revised and updated as events warrant

Performance Indices for Multivariate Ice Hockey Statistics

A Review of the Use of Performance Indices in Ice Hocke

WHO WON THE 1996 NHL PLUS-MINUS AWARD?

Point total, goals plus assists, is an NHL player’s most important individual statistic; it is the best predictor of salary. However, an individual player\u27s goals and assists are only indirectly important to his team because the team objective is to win games and not necessarily to watch individual players run up their point totals. Unfortunately, sometimes opposition teams score easy goals against a team\u27s best goal scorers because these players do not always play well defensively.vAs a result of this conflict, hockey uses a statistic called the plus/minus, (P/M), which purports to measure a player\u27s offensive versus defensive ability

The Statistical Development of an Index of Office Performance

ABSTRACT In many organizations, similar operations are carried out at different locations. This is certainly true of plant operations, and for many corporations, is also true for their business offices. For example, in the AT&T System, the everyday contact with customers is performed in approximately twenty-one hundred different business office locations. These offices all perform very similar work functions. Other organizations such as the utilities and various government agencies also have this characteristic in that many different office locations perform essentially the same work tasks. This situation leads to consideration of formal measurement schemes which can be used to compare the performance of these offices in an objective way. There are actually two types of important comparisons. The first is the comparison of an office with its own earlier performances. The second is the comparison of two different offices. The same index of office performance should not necessarily be used for both types of comparisons. This aspect of the measurement of office performance does not seem to have been discussed by earlier authors and we believe the procedures used to adjust indices for environmental differences are new. It is important to notice that these procedures do not involve expensive work sampling. The problem is discussed with specific emphasis on the statistical models used to develop both intra- and inter- office comparisons. The models described were developed for use in the AT&T System, however, they are described with emphasis on development rather than the implications of their use in the AT&T System