During fourth-and-goal conferences toward the end of very close football games, teams sometimes decide whether to kick a field goal or try for a touchdown. Such ...

Dec 1, 1998 · During fourth-and-goal conferences toward the end of very close football games, teams sometimes decide whether to kick a field goal or try ...

During fourth-and-goal conferences toward the end of very close football games, teams sometimes decide whether to kick a field goal or try for a touchdown.

During fourth-and-goal conferences toward the end of very close football games, teams sometimes decide whether to kick a field goal or try for a touchdown.

Hurley (1998) argues that the fourth-and-goal conference should never involve the decision to go for a touchdown, because that decision should be made prior to ...

Optimal Sequential Decisions and the Content of the Fourth-and-Goal Conference · W. J. Hurley. Pages:19–22. Published Online:December 1, 1998. https://doi.org ...

Interfaces, a bimonthly journal of INFORMS, is dedicated to improving the practical application of Operations Research and Management Sciences (OR/MS) to de ...

I study sequential contests where the efforts of earlier players may be disclosed to later players by nature or by design. The model has many applications, ...

If π was not optimal from x, then a better plan would exist, and the goal could be reached from x with lower cost. This contradicts the optimality of π ...

Nov 5, 2013 · This article by Hurley focuses on why the fourth down decision should be made before the first down play is called. Hurley, W.J., “Optimal ...