To select our best and worst teams of all time, we opted for a more mathematical approach.

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We decided on a mathematical approach to historically rank the top North American single-season teams in football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

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This mathematical approach to investing led to the famed Capital Asset Pricing Model by Sharpe, Lintner, and Black, the Option Pricing Model by Black and Scholes, and other important theories.

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"What the 1992 semi-final did was highlight the fact that a logical and mathematical approach was needed to solve the problem, " said Duckworth, currently with the Royal Society of Statisticians.

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The mathematical approach has its critics.

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It wasn't mathematical backwardness that led geographers away from this approach but the conviction that to rely too heavily on maths was a dead end.

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