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| he Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament Web site allows anyone with a browser to conduct an iterative prisoners dilemma tournament. The website manages all aspects of the tournament | |
| · selecting tournament parameters | |
| · logging in the participants | |
| · administering an optional pre-survey | |
| · managing the tournament itself | |
| · displaying summary results | |
| · compiling and storing the complete results | |
| About the only thing the website doesn't do is recruit participants. | |
| ow you can give your students a deeper appreciation for prisoner's dilemma by quickly and easily conducting a tournament. It's as easy as showing the demo, giving students the web address, hitting the start button on the instructor page, watching the results screen report rounds played and average score, hitting the stop button, and displaying and discussing the summary results (each participant will be ranked based on average score achieved). The entire experience can be delivered in as little as 15 minutes. All students need is a browser and internet access. | |
| he current version of the website can conduct tournaments for any symmetric, non-zero sum, two-person game. The administrator can enter the title of the tournament, labels for the two actions, and the four numerical payoffs. The site also administers a pre-survey that allows you to solicit and record data on participants. The complete round-by-round results are stored in a database for future analysis. Subjects can participate from anywhere---all they need is a browser and internet access. The website creators plan to add useful enhancements to future versions (allowing asymmetric games, for example). If there is a capability you'd like to see added, just let us know. | |
| View a Demo | |
| Download a PDF teaching note | |
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Please contact the Darden Case Collection to arrange for access to the tournament Web site. For a limited time use of the simulation will be complementary. |
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