Picking Teams With the Math of Imbalance
The Quanta Podcast
Aug 25
Picking Teams With the Math of Imbalance
Picking Teams With the Math of Imbalance

The Quanta Podcast
Aug 25
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Combinatorial discrepancy theory is a branch of mathematics concerned with balance. If you’re making two teams — sports, trivia, you name it — how can you make sure that they’re perfectly balanced and fair, skill-wise? You start with vectors. On this epi...
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