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

In many sports contests, the equilibrium requires players to randomize across repeated rounds, i.e., exhibit no temporal predictability. Such sports data present a window into the (in)efficiency of random sequence generation in a natural competitive environment, where the decision makers (tennis pla...

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Main Author: Leonidas Spiliopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2018-09-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/18/18709a/jdm18709a.pdf