A Markov Chain Approach to Baseball

DOI10.1287/OPRE.45.1.14MaRDI QIDQ4367261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruce G. Bukiet, Elliotte Rusty Harold, José Luis Palacios

Publication date 25 November 1997

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/3ac68dbcd900f7d07d39719e77fbeb87c2f7c12d

zbMATH Keywords

sportsbaseballMarkov chain methodoptimal batting orders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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