By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computers, Networks & Communications -- Investigators discuss new findings in Information Technology - Information Systems. According to news reporting from Brussels, Belgium, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, “In a fantasy sport game, participants act like a team manager building a team of real individual players of a professional sport. The real performances of these players (or their teams) are translated into points for their team managers.”
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the Catholic University of Leuven, “The managers’ aim is to collect as many points as possible, thereby defeating the fantasy teams of opponents. First, we discuss a number of common game rule characteristics of fantasy sport games. Based on these characteristics, we present a mixed-integer programming model to produce and analyze ex post results for a large variety of fantasy sport games. We discuss how these results create value for both the game organizer and the participants.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Finally, we apply our system in practice to a fantasy cycling game.”
For more information on this research see: Optimization modelling for analyzing fantasy sport games. Infor , 2017;55(4):275-294. Infor can be contacted at: Univ Toronto Press Inc, Journals Division, 5201 Dufferin St, Downsview, Toronto, On M3H 5T8, Canada. (Springer - www.springer.com; Infor - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0178-3564/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J. Belien, Catholic University of Leuven, Fac Econ & Business, Center Informat Management Modeling & Simulat, Brussels, Belgium. Additional authors for this research include D. Goossens and D. Van Reeth.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1080/03155986.2017.1279899. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-01-18), Research Conducted at Catholic University of Leuven Has Provided New Information about Information Systems (Optimization modelling for analyzing fantasy sport games), Computers, Networks & Communications, 486, ISSN: 1944-1568, BUTTER® ID: 015003494
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