Colonel Blotto—— Model thinking lecture note (10)

Colonel Blotto Defination

This model's about strategic mismatch and allocation of the resources.

It combines 3 parts. For example:

Players : employees

Fronts: each skills that employees own

Resources: The time we use to train the above skills.

Pay attention: this model give us an novel insight about weak players may want more fronts to win the game.

Multiplayer Colonel Blotto Game

Sometimes it may set a cycle. For example:

We have 3 players 1,2,3. We may have a result 1 beats 3, 3 beats 2, 1 beats 3.

How to tell the difference about skill&luck model and colonel blotto model ?

Colonel blotto model has more dimensions and it's a zero sum game.