Luck and the law: quantifying chance in fantasy sports and other contests

DOI10.1137/16M1102094MaRDI QIDQ4554903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel Getty, Hao Li, Masayuki Yano, Charles Gao, A. E. Hosoi

Publication date 12 November 2018

Published in SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/16m1102094

zbMATH Keywords

chancefantasy sportsstatistics of games

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) Experimental studies (91A90)

Recommendations

• Measuring skill in games: several approaches discussed.
• On a relative measure of skill for games with chance elements
• Optimization modelling for analyzing fantasy sport games
• On the exploitation of casino games: How to distinguish between games of chance and games of skill?
• OR analysis of sporting rules -- a survey

Cites work

• Measuring skill in games: several approaches discussed.
• Monte Carlo Tennis

Cited in

(2)

• Theory of Aces: Fame by Chance or Merit?
• Measuring skill in games: several approaches discussed.

This page was built for publication: Luck and the law: quantifying chance in fantasy sports and other contests

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4554903)