Namaste & G'day
Postulate: A strongly-knit team wins on average over a less knit one
Fundamentals:
- Two teams face off with 4 players each
- A polo team consists of players that each have assigned to them a measure of their ability (called a "Handicap" - 10 is highest, -2 lowest)
I attempted to measure close-knitness of a team in terms of standard deviation (SD) of handicaps of the players.
Failure: It turns out that, more often than, a team with a higher SD wins. In my language, that...