The Sumo coach problem

Daniel Rehsmann ()
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Daniel Rehsmann: University of Vienna

Review of Economic Design, 2023, vol. 27, issue 3, No 8, 669-700

Abstract: Abstract We address the optimal allocation of stochastically dependent resource bundles to a set of simultaneous contests. For this purpose, we study a modification of the Colonel Blotto Game called the Tennis Coach Problem. We devise a thoroughly probabilistic method of payoff representation and fully characterize equilibria in this class of games. We further formalize the idea of strategic team training in a comparative static setting. The problem applies to several distinct economic interactions but seems most prevalent in team sports with individual matches, for instance, in Tennis and Sumo.

Keywords: Seeding; Contests; Teams; Latin square games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 D7 H4 M3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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