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Scoring dynamics across professional team sports: tempo, balance and predictability
Sears Merritt, Aaron Clauset
Despite growing interest in quantifying and modeling the scoring dynamics within professional sports games, relative little is known about what patterns or principles, if any, cut…
Social Network Dynamics in a Massive Online Game: Network Turnover, Non-densification, and Team Engagement in Halo Reach
Sears Merritt, Aaron Clauset
Online multiplayer games are a popular form of social interaction, used by hundreds of millions of individuals. However, little is known about the social networks within these onli…
Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions
Sears Merritt, Aaron Clauset
In most professional sports, the structure of the environment is kept neutral so that scoring imbalances may be attributed to differences in team skill. It thus remains unknown wha…
Detecting Friendship Within Dynamic Online Interaction Networks
Sears Merritt, Abigail Z. Jacobs, Winter Mason +1
In many complex social systems, the timing and frequency of interactions between individuals are observable but friendship ties are hidden. Recovering these hidden ties, particular…