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Investigating trade-offs made by American football linebackers using tracking data 利用追踪数据调查美式橄榄球中后卫的取舍
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2022-0091
Eric Eager, Tej Seth
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Choosing opponents in skiing sprint elimination tournaments 在滑雪冲刺淘汰赛中选择对手
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0027
Anders Lunander, N. Karlsson
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Generalizing the Elo rating system for multiplayer games and races: why endurance is better than speed 概括多人游戏和比赛的Elo评级系统:为什么耐力比速度更重要
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2023-0004
B. Powell
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The evolution of seeding systems and the impact of imbalanced groups in FIFA Men’s World Cup tournaments 1954–2022 1954-2022年国际足联男子世界杯比赛中种子系统的演变和不平衡小组的影响
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-06-19 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2022-0087
Michael A. Lapré, Elizabeth M. Palazzolo
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2023-frontmatter2
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Parking the bus 停车
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0059
Tianyu Guan, Jiguo Cao, T. Swartz
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Testing styles of play using triad census distribution: an application to men’s football 使用三合一人口普查分布测试游戏风格:在男子足球中的应用
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2022-0010
Lucio Palazzo, Riccardo Ievoli, G. Ragozini
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Predicting elite NBA lineups using individual player order statistics 使用个人球员顺序统计预测NBA精英阵容
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-03-09 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2022-0039
Susan E. Martonosi, Martin Gonzalez, Nicolas Oshiro
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引用次数: 1
Frontmatter 头版头条
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2023-frontmatter1
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Modern and post-modern portfolio theory as applied to moneyline betting 现代和后现代投资组合理论在金钱投注中的应用
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports Pub Date : 2023-02-13 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0107
D. Harville
{"title":"Modern and post-modern portfolio theory as applied to moneyline betting","authors":"D. Harville","doi":"10.1515/jqas-2021-0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jqas-2021-0107","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Modern and post-modern portfolio theory were devised by Harry Markowitz (among others) for purposes of allocating some monetary resources among a number of financial assets so as to strike a suitable balance between risk and expected return. The problem it addresses bears a considerable resemblance to one encountered in making “moneyline” bets on the outcomes of contests in sports like American football. In distributing some allotted funds among a number of such bets, it may be desired to account for the risk. By introducing suitable modifications, the procedures employed in modern and post-modern portfolio theory for the allocation of resources among financial assets can be adapted for use in the distribution of funds among multiple bets. As in the case of financial assets, the most appropriate measures of risk are ones like the semi-deviation or semi-variance that penalize only negative or below-target returns. The various procedures are illustrated and compared by applying them retrospectively to moneyline bets on the outcomes of the college football “bowl” games from the 2020 season.","PeriodicalId":16925,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78600023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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