Minimax Play at Wimbledon.¶
Walker, M., & Wooders, J. (2001). Minimax Play at Wimbledon. American Economic Review, 91(5), 1521-1538.
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- Mixed Strategy
- In sports penalty-kick direction, pitch selection, and serve placement are mixed strategies, and empirical studies find professionals playing approximately equilibrium mixtures.
This sourceEmpirical evidence that professional tennis players' serve placement approximates equilibrium mixed strategies.
- In sports penalty-kick direction, pitch selection, and serve placement are mixed strategies, and empirical studies find professionals playing approximately equilibrium mixtures.
Domain-specific¶
- Mixed Strategy Equilibrium
- Empirical tests — Walker and Wooders (2001) on professional tennis serves; Chiappori, Levitt, and Groseclose (2002) on penalty kicks in soccer — find that expert players' historical frequencies approximate the equilibrium mixing proportions, providing unusually direct field evidence for a game-theoretic prediction.
This sourceWalker and Wooders test mixed-strategy equilibrium against classic professional tennis matches and find serve-and-return play consistent with equilibrium play.
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“We use data from classic professional tennis matches to provide an empirical test of the theory of mixed strategy equilibrium.”
- Empirical tests — Walker and Wooders (2001) on professional tennis serves; Chiappori, Levitt, and Groseclose (2002) on penalty kicks in soccer — find that expert players' historical frequencies approximate the equilibrium mixing proportions, providing unusually direct field evidence for a game-theoretic prediction.
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