Surviving a National Football League Survivor Pool

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bergman, David; Imbrogno, Jason
• 署名单位: University of Connecticut
• 刊物名称: OPERATIONS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0030-364X
• DOI: 10.1287/opre.2017.1633
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1343-1354
• 关键词: march madness

摘要

In this paper, an analytical approach to National Football League (NFL) survival pools Is investigated. This paper Introduces Into the literature NFL survival pools and presents optimization models for determining strategies. Computational results indicate that planning only partway through the season yields the highest survival probabilities, which dominate millions of randomly generated strategies.