The James function

DOI10.4169/MATH.MAG.88.1.54MaRDI QIDQ3454193zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Warren P. Johnson, Steven J. Miller, Christopher N. B. Hammond

Publication date 23 November 2015

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7627

zbMATH Keywords

hyper-James functionJames conditionJames functionJamesian function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary functions (26A09) Continuity and differentiation questions (26B05)

Abstract: We investigate the properties of the James function, associated with Bill James's so-called "log5 method," which assigns a probability to the result of a game between two teams based on their respective winning percentages. We also introduce and study a class of functions, which we call Jamesian, that satisfy the same a priori conditions that were originally used to describe the James function.

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