Odisha Journal Of Social Science - V4-IS1

This paper explores an innovative way to quantify the sophistication level of sports games. For this purpose, the game reûnement measure is employed for the assessment and three sports are chosen as examples to examine. It ûrst reviews the game reûnement theory with several approachesto ûgure out a game progress model to derive a game reûnement measure for the game under consideration. It then demonstrates the analysis of sports games using game reûnement measures in the three sports: baseball, boxing and tennis. The previous study with game reûnement theory suggests that sophisticated games have the same or similar zone values (R = 0.07 -0.08) of game reûnement. It implies that well developed games such as chess and soccer have reached the zone value, whereas developing games are facing a challenge to enrich the regulations. The results obtained in this study show that the values of game reûnement measure for both baseball and tennis are lower than the zone value, and professional Boxing is slightly higher than it. Moreover, the game reûnement measure would enable to see a plausible direction of the potential enhancement of regulations of sports under consideration.

Introduction Sports are artiûcial tests established by the rules that not only prescribe the use of less efûcient meansto achieve the goal stipulated but also require the implementation of physical skills to do so Jennings(2014).It is generally considered as an activity which uses many combinations of player’s physical skills such as strength, vitality, agility, dexterityand so on. To have these great skills, training is the most important thing that a player has to do. The more you train the better you get is a very common and essential quote that everyone knows. Usually the contest is performed between two sides, both single player and team sports Mandelbaum (2004), and the results are winning, losing or draw. In order to be a winner, a player has to devote everything that he has under the considered sports’ rule.

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