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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

The Hot Hand

By Tangotiger, 12:56 PM

We all know about The Hot Hand.  But, would you bet on it?

http://people.ucsc.edu/~rgil/world_cup.pdf

Because these games are televised, all traders have virtually simultaneous access to new information in the form of goals, and it is also observable to the econometrician.

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(3) Comments • 2006/07/27 • SabermetricsForecastingStreaksOther SportsSoccer
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