How the wave behaves.

• Author: Fountain, Henry
• Position: Science Times - Brief Article

In physics, there are many kinds of waves. In sports, there is only the Wave, the sweeping mass of spectators rising in sequence around a stadium. But the Wave, it turns out, can be quantified Just about as well as its scientific namesakes. A group of Hungarian researchers studied videotapes of soccer matches and found that the Wave usually rolls in a clockwise direction at a speed of about 20 seats per second. They also built computer models and found that the probability of a successful Wave...