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Record W3026429734 · doi:10.1080/00948705.2020.1768860

Gamesmanship as Strategic Excellence

2020· article· en· W3026429734 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Philosophy of Sport · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDoping in Sports
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScrutinyCriticismRepresentation (politics)AnachronismMistakeDiscoverabilityExcellenceLawSociologyAestheticsPoliticsPolitical sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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Contributors to the literature on gamesmanship typically assume that gamesmanship can be clearly distinguished from other legal strategies used in sports. In this article, we argue that this is a mistake. Instead, we propose that gamesmanship is a form of strategic excellence and a proper part of competitive sport. Using Howe’s influential work on gamesmanship as a representation of the received view, we show how the current debate rests on a presupposition that fails to withstand critical scrutiny (Section 2). Further, we argue that once this distinction is shown to be untenable, Howe’s evaluative account of gamesmanship fails (Section 3). By contrast, our alternative analysis leads us to a more positive evaluation of gamesmanship. In particular, we contend that effective uses of gamesmanship are simply examples of strategic excellence that – by definition – fall within the boundaries of what is permissible in competitive sport. We conclude by considering the relationship between gamesmanship and the spirit of the sport (Section 4) and by addressing a potential criticism that draws an analogy between sport and professional practices that clearly do not permit strategies akin to gamesmanship (Section 5).

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.272
Threshold uncertainty score0.254

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.313
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it