What I want is an organization that can be together, one where everybody in the place has the same goal, and that is to win. That was the principle of an article presented at last year’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, an annual gathering of sports science and analytics experts. Fellow Swiss Manuela Schar shattered the women’s mark by more than five minutes, winning in 1hr 28min 17sec. That, it increasingly turns out, is the Tim Howard problem.