Wondered if anyone could help me at all with the below?
there are 3 golfers playing together on a given round. i can estimate that A is 55% to beat B (45% to lose, i am ignoring draws for now) A is 75% to beat C B is 65% to beat C
What does this mean the chances of the winner of the 3-ball should be? Obv it is easy to see A will be fave and C the big outsider
To win the 3 ball, A has to beat B (55%) but also be beating C. This introduces conditional probability - ie. once A has beaten B, he's more likely to have had a good round and thus his chance of having beaten C is going to be higher than 75%. But i cant work out by how much, otherr than by simply guessing the multiples below?
i.e A's chances of winning 3 ball would be 55%*(some multiple, x say, of 75%)
And obv similar logic for B&C's chances. B = 45% * (another multiple, y, of 65%) C = 25% * (z * 35%)
Clearly i know the sum of the 3 chances must sum to 1 but this isnt enough to deduce an answer, because the 3 multiples x,y,z will take on different values. I suspect theyll all tend to be something like 1.1-1.4, higher for the outsiders. ie. once C has beaten A then Id expect him to be not far off 50% to have beaten B too (45% would need z to be around 1.3)
I know that Bayes would say P(A beats C, given A beats B) = ( P(A beats B, given A beats C)*P(A beats C) ) / P(A beats B)
But not sure that helps me as i dont know either of the conditional probabilities
Any ideas or thoughts appreciated - in particular can maths help me with this or do i have to basically find a way of guesstimating x,y,z myself?