Scanning (very) old cricket rule books at the Maryleborne Cricket Club in Lord's using a CZUR scanner. The oldest rule books were from 1744, ~31 years before the start of the American War of Independence!
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This is the Sports Rules Project
This is the Sports Rules Project
The world around us is governed by rules and regulations, from gene regulation in cells, to the governance of the societies that we live in. Are there universal patterns in how these laws structure themselves? With what data can we compare these different systems?
Sport is one of the quintessential examples of a system governed by rules. Rules govern sports to make them interesting, fair and safe. There is no sport without rules. But how fast are rules growing in sport? Is the increase in current rules given the rise of VAR technologies causing an avalanche of new regulations, or is this simply in line with how things have been going? How might we expect sports laws to change in the future? What are the parallels between codes of law in governance and laws in sport?
The Sports Rules Project aims to provide data to in a first step to answering these questions. It is the first project of its type to provide an online archive for the history of sports rule books.
Please contact me by email (see below) if:
You have access to sports rule books for this archive and want to see what's possible.
You have any journalism inquiries.
You have questions about the rule book data in the archive.
Special thanks to Hyejin Youn, Vicky Yang, Chris Kempes, Sid Redner, Geoffrey West and the NSF for supporting the making of this archive! Additional thanks to Alan Rees (Marylebone Cricket Club), Jonny Singer (MCC Laws of Cricket Advisor), Niamh Field and Phil McGowan (both at the World Rugby Museum) for advice and consultation and good vibes. This project was conceived and executed, by me, James Holehouse, a researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA.
To read more about my research, and other topics I'm interested, in please use the links below!
To read more about my research, and other topics I'm interested, in please use the links below!
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