This week’s piece in The Star looked at the effect (if any) of a player’s size on his own performance and that of his teammates. Unfortunately, space constraints prevented us from going into as much detail as we would have liked. To that end, I would like to give a more thorough explanation of what […]
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Variance and Chicken Wings: More on the US Olympic Team
To me, the important issue raised by the piece in The Star is that the probability of winning a single game is determined by more than each team’s expected performance. Consider the following stylized version of a competition. Suppose that IJay and I sit down to have a suicide wing eating competition. In such a […]