Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1131-1141

  Saavedra, Serguei ^a   Powers, Scott ^b   McCotter, Trent ^c   Porter, Mason A ^d   Mucha, Peter J ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bipartite networks; Competition dynamics; Random walkers; Ranking systems

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANTAGONISTIC INTERACTIONS; BIASED RANDOM WALK; BIPARTITE NETWORK; RANDOM WALKERS; RANKING SYSTEM; RULE CHANGES;

BASEBALL;

EID: 71649087761     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.10.038     Document Type: Article

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