| 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.