Nash Equilibrium in Strictly Competitive Games: Live Play in Soccer

GianCarlo Moschini

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: I model a scoring situation that arises frequently during soccer matches. The Nash equilibrium solution is shown to be broadly consistent with the conventional wisdom of experts. Data on goals scored over an entire season in Italyï¾’s soccer league provide statistical support for a prediction of the modelï¾’s Nash equilibrium.

Date: 2004-12-01
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Published in Economics Letters, December 2004, vol. 85 no. 3, pp. 365-371

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