Article ID: | iaor20021551 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 133 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 557 |
End Page Number: | 565 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Saedt Anton P.H., Willoughby Keith A., Kostuk Kent J. |
Keywords: | markov processes |
Markov processes have been used to model a variety of sports such as football, jai alai and baseball. Curling has a scoring system similar to baseball; both progress on an inning by inning basis. This suggests that curling could also be modeled as a Markov process. We will develop such a model and compare some basic strategies.