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When to use form and when not

When to use form and when not

Each day I flick through the available sports on offer and have a quick look for anything interesting.

On the racing today something jumped out immediately, Battle group in the 16:00 at Kempton.

Battle group famously refused to race at the Grand National and caused a false start. They restarted, but it didn’t make it past the first fence. Today it is running over 1m4f at Kempton. One look at it’s form and it’s a miserable recent record, three refused …

18/08/2014 | By | Reply More
Performance anxiety – Why players lose form

Performance anxiety – Why players lose form

Lovely piece on psychology in the weekend FT. It examines why players of a sport often inexplicably lose their form. I’ve been studying this specifically in a few sports to come up with predictors of decline. My research was sparked by the collapse in form  David Duval after he won the British Open golf and I started to dig around deeper and deeper for events that can lead to a decline. I’ve found it useful in Golf and Tennis which …

19/02/2012 | By More
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