A characterization of the degree of weak and strong links in doubles sports
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Paramjit S. Gill
Abstract
This paper proposes a model that characterizes the degree to which a doubles sport (i.e. two team members) is a weak or a strong link game. The model is applied to the sport of pickleball where interest is focused on the doubles version of the sport. As a byproduct of the analysis, individual player rankings are obtained.
Acknowledgement
Swartz has been partially supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The authors thank the Associate Editor and two reviewers for their comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Rao-Blackwellizing field goal percentage
- Measuring soccer players’ contributions to chance creation by valuing their passes
- Six-day footraces in the post-pedestrianism era
- Seeding the UEFA Champions League participants: evaluation of the reforms
- Automatic event detection in basketball using HMM with energy based defensive assignment
- A characterization of the degree of weak and strong links in doubles sports
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Rao-Blackwellizing field goal percentage
- Measuring soccer players’ contributions to chance creation by valuing their passes
- Six-day footraces in the post-pedestrianism era
- Seeding the UEFA Champions League participants: evaluation of the reforms
- Automatic event detection in basketball using HMM with energy based defensive assignment
- A characterization of the degree of weak and strong links in doubles sports
