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Which Ball is the Roundest? - A Suggested Tournament Stability Index
2006
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS)
All sports have components of randomness that cause the "best" individual or team not to win every game. According to many spectators this uncertainty is part of the charm when following a competition or a match. Have different sports more or less of this unpredictability? We suggest here a general measure, a tournament stability index, together with its associated p-value which we denote the "coin-tossing-index." These indexes are aimed to quantify the randomness factor for different
doi:10.2202/1559-0410.1005
fatcat:nziklj3r4nbdlo6e3ujowvdotu