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The Rating of Players in Racquetball Tournaments

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  • David Strauss
  • Barry C. Arnold

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Maximum likelihood and method of moments estimates are developed for rally winning probabilities for certain sports in which points can only be scored by the server (e.g. racquetball, volleyball, squash and badminton). Such estimates are then used to develop a rating system for the players in a tournament, based on Bradley‐Terry paired comparison methods. The procedures are applied to an actual racquetball tournament.

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  • David Strauss & Barry C. Arnold, 1987. "The Rating of Players in Racquetball Tournaments," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 36(2), pages 163-173, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssc:v:36:y:1987:i:2:p:163-173
    DOI: 10.2307/2347548
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    1. Gonzalez-Cabrera Ivan & Herrera Diego Dario & González Diego Luis, 2020. "Generalized model for scores in volleyball matches," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 16(1), pages 41-55, March.
    2. Davy Paindaveine & Yvik Swan, 2009. "A stochastic analysis of some two-person sports," Working Papers ECARES 2009_025, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    3. Jeryl L. Mumpower, 2011. "Playing Squash Against Ralph Keeney: Should Weaker Players Always Prefer Shorter Games?," Decision Analysis, INFORMS, vol. 8(1), pages 71-77, March.
    4. Galeano, Javier & Gómez, Miguel-Ángel & Rivas, Fernando & Buldú, Javier M., 2022. "Using Markov chains to identify player’s performance in badminton," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 165(P2).

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