Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions
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Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions
In most professional sports, playing field structure is kept neutral so that scoring imbalances may be attributed to differences in team skill. It thus remains unknown what impact environmental heterogeneities can have on scoring dynamics or competitive advantages. Applying a novel generative model of scoring dynamics to roughly 10 million team competitions drawn from an online game, we quantif...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep03067