Golf and gambling
Date
Thu March 31st 2022, 4:30pm
Location
Sequoia 200
Speaker
Gene B. Kim, Stanford Math
Daily fantasy sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. Despite the semblance to sports betting, it has been declared as a game of skill in most US states. At its essence, this is a game of probabilistic optimization. We will discuss how to use data to model various distributions related to golf and how to use them to potentially multiply our investments by 10,000.