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Activity Number:
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195
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, July 30, 2012 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Sports
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| Abstract - #306224 |
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Title:
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A Tennis Ladder Simulation for Modeling Social Versus Aggressive Competitive Behavior
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Author(s):
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Kellie Keeling*+ and Scott Toney and Thomas Obremski
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Companies:
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University of Denver and University of Denver and University of Denver
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Address:
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Businesss Information & Analytics, Denver, CO, 80208-8931, United States
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Keywords:
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Tennis ;
Simulation ;
Sportsmanship ;
Sports
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Abstract:
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Tennis ladders are used by tennis facilities to encourage competition among players with relatively like skills. Players are randomly placed on the ladder at the beginning of the season and move up or down the ladder based on their wins and losses. A common phrase that is heard at sporting events, or at least heard said by parents to their children, is "Not that you won or lost - but that you played the game." There is a social union in sports that is an unspoken agreement that the players will willingly abide and play by the rules in the interests of what is fair. We present a tennis ladder simulation model designed to examine the ability of aggressive and non-aggressive players to move up or down the ladder over the course of a season.
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