The James Function
History and Overview
2014-10-27 v4 Classical Analysis and ODEs
Probability
Abstract
We investigate the properties of the James function, associated with Bill James's so-called "log5 method," which assigns a probability to the result of a game between two teams based on their respective winning percentages. We also introduce and study a class of functions, which we call Jamesian, that satisfy the same a priori conditions that were originally used to describe the James function.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.7627,
title = {The James Function},
author = {Christopher N. B. Hammond and Warren P. Johnson and Steven J. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.7627},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
18 pages, 5 figures