11 papers
An Augmented Rating System for Test cricket: adapting the Glicko rating system
Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay, Diganta Mukherjee
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) Test cricket ratings use match and series results alone, stating no allowance about the precision of a rating, or about home advantage and…
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…
Causal Analysis of Health, Education, and Economic Well-Being in India -- Evidence from the Young Lives Survey
Anushka De, Diganta Mukherjee
This study investigates the dynamic and potentially causal relationships among childhood health, education, and long-term economic well-being in India using longitudinal data from…
Statistical inference for core-periphery structures
Eric Yanchenko, Srijan Sengupta, Diganta Mukherjee
Core-periphery (CP) structure is an important meso-scale network property where nodes group into a small, densely interconnected {core} and a sparse {periphery} whose members prima…
Capturing Perception to Poverty using Conjoint Analysis & Partial Profile Choice Experiment
Anushka De, Diganta Mukherjee
The objective of this study is applying a utility based analysis to a comparatively efficient design experiment which can capture people's perception towards the various components…
Skill vs. Chance Quantification for Popular Card & Board Games
Tathagata Banerjee, Anushka De, Subhamoy Maitra +1
This paper presents a data-driven statistical framework to quantify the role of skill in games, addressing the long-standing question of whether success in a game is predominantly…
Skill Dominance Analysis of Two(Four) player, Three(Five) dice Variant of the Ludo Game
Tathagata Banerjee, Diganta Mukherjee
This paper examines two different variants of the Ludo game, involving multiple dice and a fixed number of total turns. Within each variant, multiple game lengths (total no. of tur…