Reexamination of teams play in mixed-strategy game experiment

Yoshitaka Okano

No SDES-2014-12, Working Papers from Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management

Abstract: Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2008) found that the behavior of professional soccer players in two-person zero-sum games is consistent with minimax play, while Wooders (2010) reexamined their data and found inconsistencies in several respects. This study applies a similar analysis of Wooders (2010) to the experimental data in Okano (2013), which found that the behavior of teams of two student subjects conforms closely to minimax play, and addresses whether teams exhibit the same inconsistencies as professionals. Teams were found to have consistency with minimax play, with no tendencies similar to those of professionals.

Keywords: Experimental game; teams' decision making; minimax; zero-sum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2014-10, Revised 2014-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp and nep-gth
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Published in SDE Series, October 2014, pages 1-10

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Journal Article: Re-examination of team’s play in a mixed-strategy game experiment (2016)
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