Mind Your Decisions

Game Theory Roundup (8/18/08)

18 August 2008

Recently I’ve come across some amazing articles discussing game theory concepts. I love it when others join the discussion so let’s promote them. I’ll do my part by linking out more frequently. Please do your part to encourage game theory by reading and spreading the following articles:

–Dorian Wales asks Why are we working so much? at The Personal Financier

–Pratik ponders the strategy of school dances and buying dresses at pratiksrandomwalk

–Jake Young writes about The Dark Knight and a scene with game theory (warning–major spoilers) at Pure Pedantry. Another approach I liked is Michael Allen’s analysis of the same scene at The Quantitative Peace

–Mark Chu-Carroll has written some great articles on game theory at Good Math, Bad Math. I enjoyed the discussion of solving zero-sum games and solving tic-tac-toe: game tree basics

–Brian Burke writes two excellent articles applying game theory to NFL football. Check out the beautiful graphics in the articles: Game theory and play calling and Game theory and great running backs

And if you ever need a game theory fix, check out the Mind Your Decisions game theory archives which now have over 1 year’s worth of articles.

Did I miss any important articles? Send me links and I’ll add them on.