Minimax Play at Wimbledon

By M. Walker, John Wooders. 2001

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Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer (2009, background): “Testing for mixed strategies in tennis (Walker and Wooders 2001) and penalty taking in soccer (Chiappori et al.”
(Mixed) Strategy in Oligopoly Pricing: Evidence from Gasoline Price Cycles Before and Under a Timing Regulation (2009, background): “Walker and Wooders (2001), for example, estimate the winning probabilities of two discrete actions (e.”
Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers (2000, background): “Walker and Wooders (1999) find some evidence consistent with the gambler’s fallacy in the play of zero-sum games.”
Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football (2006, background): “4 Two recent papers that apply economic tools to sports strategy—and in doing so use sports data to test hypotheses about maximization—are the study of serves in tennis by Walker and Wooders (2001) and the study of penalty kicks in soccer by Chiappori, Levitt, and Groseclose (2002).”