Optimal Strategies and Rules for the Game of Horse
Probability
2022-01-19 v1
Abstract
We investigate the probability of scoring a point when playing the basketball shooting game called "Horse". We show that under the Traditional Rules, it is optimal to choose very easy shots. We propose alternative rules called Pops Rules, and show that they lead to more difficult optimal shots, and thus to a more interesting game.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2201.06560,
title = {Optimal Strategies and Rules for the Game of Horse},
author = {Daniel Rosenthal and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.06560},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
10 pages; to appear in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society