Solution

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Whenever players 1 and 2 occur, the linear predictor contains their parameters only through
For any constants , replacing
leaves every fitted probability and hence the likelihood function unchanged. The parameterization is therefore nonidentifiable: at most can be estimated uniquely. Hence there is no unique maximum-likelihood estimate of the three separate parameters.

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