Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: A major objective of professional sport is to find out which player or team is the best. Unfortunately the structure of some sports means that this is often a \ndifficult question to answer. For example, there may be too many competitors to run a round-robin league, whilst knock-out tournaments do not compare every player with every other player. \nThe problem gets worse when one has to compare players whose performance varies over time. \nFortunately mathematical modelling can help and in this article, we use the Plackett-Luce model to estimate time-varying player strengths of golfers. \nWe use the model to investigate how good golf's current biggest attraction, Tiger Woods, really is.
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W200774047