9 papers
An Augmented Rating System for Test cricket: adapting Glicko's model
Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay, Diganta Mukherjee
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) ranking system for Test cricket does not adequately account for key contextual factors such as home advantage, the toss outcome and schedu…
MinDist is less than 7
Purushottam Saha, Diganta Mukherjee
The metric MinDist, introduced recently to quantify the distance of an arbitrary Rummy hand from a valid declaration, plays a central role in algorithmic hand evaluation and optima…
Quantitative Rule-Based Strategy modeling in Classic Indian Rummy: A Metric Optimization Approach
Purushottam Saha, Avirup Chakraborty, Sourish Sarkar +3
The 13-card variant of Classic Indian Rummy is a sequential game of incomplete information that requires probabilistic reasoning and combinatorial decision-making. This paper propo…
Analyzing Skill Element in Online Fantasy Cricket
Sarthak Sarkar, Supratim Das, Purushottam Saha +2
Online fantasy cricket has emerged as large-scale competitive systems in which participants construct virtual teams and compete based on real-world player performances. This massiv…
Adapting Skill Ratings to Luck-Based Hidden-Information Games
Avirup Chakraborty, Shirsa Maitra, Tathagata Banerjee +2
Rating systems play a crucial role in evaluating player skill across competitive environments. The Elo rating system, originally designed for deterministic and information-complete…
Empirical parameterization of the Elo Rating System
Shirsa Maitra, Tathagata Banerjee, Anushka De +2
This study aims to provide a data-driven approach for empirically tuning and validating rating systems, focusing on the Elo system. Well-known rating frameworks, such as Elo, Glick…