Research of Hot Hand Fallacy in Counter-Strike

Student: Bernikov Denis

Supervisor: Ilya Schurov

Educational Programme: Joint HSE-NES Undergraduate Program in Economics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2020

In this paper, I explore the existence of hot hand fallacy in professional Counter-Strike matches. The effect was assessed by investigating the relationships between a player's results in previous rounds and his amount of kills or share of headshot kills in the next round. Adding control on teams' equipment, I have not got any significant results in terms of hot hand fallacy. That corresponds to the previous studies on the topic.

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