Packet J: Bonus 6
In this field, dealers are considered nature players because they have no strategic interests in the outcome. For 10 points each:
[10e] What field studies the Nash equilibria of situations like the Prisoner’s Dilemma and rock, paper, scissors?
ANSWER: game theory
[10m] Adding moves by the nature player transforms games with this resource from incomplete to imperfect. A George Akerlof paper that calls bad cars “lemons” discusses this resource’s “asymmetry.”
ANSWER: information [accept incomplete information; accept imperfect information; accept information asymmetry]
[10h] The extensive-form of a game allows a game with incomplete information to be represented as one of these objects via the Harsanyi transformation. Chess engines search “partial” examples of these objects.
ANSWER: game trees [accept decision trees; accept partial game trees]
<Editors, Social Science> | Packet J
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | 18.38 | 96% | 43% | 45% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | Princeton | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| George Mason A | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| George Mason C | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | George Mason B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Maryland A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | Maryland C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| NYU B | Lehigh B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU C | Rutgers C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rowan | Vassar B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers B | Lehigh A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers D | Penn | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Stony Brook | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | Main | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southern California | Main | ✓ | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 29% | 86% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | ✓ | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 56% | 44% |
| Florida | Main | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 50% | 25% | 50% |
| Great Lakes | Main | ✓ | 12 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 9 | 17.78 | 89% | 44% | 44% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 10 | 17.00 | 100% | 30% | 40% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Midwest | Main | ✓ | 9 | 24.44 | 100% | 78% | 67% |
| North | Main | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 25% | 75% |
| Northeast | Main | ✓ | 11 | 19.09 | 100% | 46% | 46% |
| Pacific | Main | ✓ | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 38% | 50% |
| South Central | Main | ✓ | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 29% | 14% |
| Southeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 25% | 33% |
| Upstate NY | Main | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| UK (North) | UK | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| UK (South) | UK | ✓ | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 43% | 29% |