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This problem explores the same ideas as Charting Success.
Below are some graphs, charts and diagrams created by sports statisticians, trainers or competitors to help them to analyse performance, inform training programmes or improve motivation.
For each diagram, consider the following questions:
Baskets made (o) and missed (x) in the fourth quarter of a basketball match
Finishing Scores of top ten athletes in Olympic heptathlon
Shots on and off target for one team in a football match