Note: More on Morrison and Wheat's “Pulling the Goalie Revisited”

Erhan Erkut
Additional contact information
Erhan Erkut: Department of Finance and Management Science, University of Alberta, 3-23 Faculty of Business Building, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R6 Canada

Interfaces, 1987, vol. 17, issue 5, 121-123

Abstract: This is a note regarding the excellent article “Misapplications Reviews: Pulling the Goalie Revisited” by Morrison and Wheat [Morrison, D. G., R. D. Wheat. 1986. Misapplications reviews: Pulling the Goalie revisited. Interfaces 16 (6) 28--34.]. Being a hockey fan, I thoroughly enjoyed the article. I think it is an interesting example of modeling and optimization, well suited for teaching in a NHL city. However, I teach in Edmonton, the recently acclaimed hockey capital of North America, and my students felt uneasy about the first assumption made by the authors, “when both teams have their goalies on the ice, the two teams are of equal ability and each scores goals at a constant rate of L per minute.”

Keywords: recreation/sports; decision analysis: applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.17.5.121 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:orinte:v:17:y:1987:i:5:p:121-123

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Interfaces from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().