Article,
Curling Analysis based on the Possession of the Last Stone Per End
Procedia Engineering, (2013)
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2013.07.028
Abstract
Curling is a winter sport played by over one million people in at least 33 countries. As with other sports, strategy and teamwork play an important role in winning a curling game. Various strategies, such as when you have (or don’t have) the last stone, can be applied based on the situations. In curling games, it is widely known that the team throwing the last stone in the opening end is likely to win. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the outcome of the game based on the possession of first stone or last stone per end. For the analysis, data was collected from statistics and results of the WCF (World Curling Federation). 628 games (309 men's games and 319 women's games) which ended exactly at the tenth end were used. Binary logistic regression in SPSS 20.0 was applied for the analysis. A dependent variable was the game outcome, and ten independent variables were the possessions of the last stone per end. As a result, it is found that there was a statistical significance (p< 0.05) between the game outcome and the possession of the last stone from the first end to the tenth end, except the second end. Specifically, the possession of the first or last stone in the ninth end was more closely related to winning the game than other ends.
