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Operations Research and Hockey - What Are the Odds?

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Sports

With his love for hockey and the purpose of motivating his students, the Management Science (MS) professor Armann Ingolfsson at the University of Alberta School of Business developed a computer model to calculate the probability of which teams should make the NHL playoffs this year, and which should fail to do so.
His results indicate that [...]

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