Re:A restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews
by rectang on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:52PM
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There's a term for this: "sandbagging". It happens across lots of rated competitive platforms, from pool to chess to Scrabble to stocks...
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Re:A restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews
by edmundsauto on Sunday June 09, 2019 @09:28PM
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Haha I remember my dad teaching me this term during sports teams tryouts, the kinds where you would be drafted onto a team at the start of the year. I was a decent player, but definitely did not try my hardest during tryouts -- if I had, I would have been the worst "first pick", making my team bad.
Game theory to 9 year olds?