Game Plan: What AI can do for Football, and What Football can do for AI

K Tuyls, S Omidshafiei, P Muller, Z Wang… - Journal of Artificial …, 2021 - jair.org
The rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has opened
unprecedented analytics possibilities in various team and individual sports, including …

On being unpredictable and winning.

CKW De Dreu, J Gross, A Arciniegas… - Journal of Personality …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
In theory, it can be strategically advantageous for competitors to make themselves
unpredictable to their opponents, for example, by variably mixing hostility and friendliness …

Analytic method for evaluating players' decisions in team sports: Applications to the soccer goalkeeper

L Lamas, R Drezner, G Otranto, J Barrera - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The aim of this study was to define a method for evaluating a player's decisions during a
game based on the success probability of his actions and for analyzing the player strategy …

Game intelligence in team sports

J Lennartsson, N Lidström, C Lindberg - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We set up a game theoretic framework to analyze a wide range of situations from team
sports. A fundamental idea is the concept of potential; the probability of the offense scoring …

Randomization and serial dependence in professional tennis matches: Do strategic considerations, player rankings and match characteristics matter?

L Spiliopoulos - Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 - cambridge.org
In many sports contests, the equilibrium requires players to randomize across repeated
rounds, ie, exhibit no temporal predictability. Such sports data present a window into the (in) …

Do Arabian babblers play mixed strategies in a “volunteer's dilemma”?

A Heifetz, R Heller, R Ostreiher - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental …, 2021 - Elsevier
When group-living Arabian babbler songbirds hear a sentinel alarm call that indicates a
raptor approach, they should instantaneously choose whether to flee to shelter, or rather to …

Random actions in experimental zero-sum games

JS You - Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 2021 - ojs.amhinternational.com
A mixed strategy, a strategy of unpredictable actions, is applicable to business, politics, and
sports. Playing mixed strategies, however, poses a challenge, as the game theory involves …

Football Predictions based on Time Series with Granular Event Segmentation

H Rakytyanska, M Demchuk - … and Decision Making: Proceedings of the …, 2020 - Springer
The method of data quality management in mining fuzzy relations from time series of sports
data is proposed. The fuzzy relation-based model of time series with granular event …

Pressure and the ability to randomize decision-making: The case of the pickoff play in Major League Baseball

J Downey, J McGarrity - Atlantic Economic Journal, 2019 - Springer
In mixed strategy games, the ability to randomize decisions is a critical strategic necessity,
yet studies show that such rational behavior is sometimes elusive. This paper examines …

Three Economic Experiments on Norm Enforcement, Honesty, and Strategic Gaze

K von Hesler - 2017 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
When are unaffected third parties willing to punish or reward people for their behavior
toward others? We try to answer this question with an experiment. More specifically, we let …