In Part 2 of my Wisconsin Football Analytics Pre-Season Series I’m going to analyze Phil Longo’s Play-Call Mix from a Game Theory perspective.
In case you missed it, here is Part 1 & my YouTube Video on it.
Although Game Theory has made its way into the fields of Economics, Politics, Geopolitics, and War as a tool to inform strategy and optimal decision-making, it has also been used and applied to optimize Football decision-making.
But you may have never heard of it. So what is Game Theory?
Based on the definition from Investopedia:
“Game theory is the study of how and why individuals and entities (called players) make decisions about their situations.