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- Title
The probabilities of winning a racquetball doubles match motivate a fairer side-out scoring scheme for singles and team events.
- Authors
Peters, James E.; Peters, Christopher J.
- Abstract
We explore the probabilities of winning a best-of-three doubles racquetball match given the probabilities that each of the participants wins a point while serving. We restrict our attention to the cases where these probabilities are between 0.4 and 0.6 for all participants; in other words, the cases where all of the players are moderately evenly matched. In doing so, we find it sensible to suggest changes to the side-out scoring schemes in singles and in team events. These changes would cause each game played to be more fair while preserving the fairness of a match, for which there seems to be adequate impetus.
- Subjects
RACQUETBALL; PROBABILITY theory; HANDBALL players; SPORTS events; SPORTS teams
- Publication
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2019, Vol 15, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
2194-6388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jqas-2018-0085