diff --git a/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battlelatex/tables.py b/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battlelatex/tables.py
index 513d202f..263414cd 100644
--- a/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battlelatex/tables.py
+++ b/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battlelatex/tables.py
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ def leaderboard_to_latex(leaderboard, caption, label, max_rows=42):
                      '_emp':' empirical ',
                      '_ppo':' ',
                      '_r':' r=0.',
-                     '_g025': ' \gamma=0.5',
-                     '_g050':' \gamma=0.5',
-                     '_g100': ' \gamma=1',
+                     '_g025': ' \\gamma=0.5',
+                     '_g050':' \\gamma=0.5',
+                     '_g100': ' \\gamma=1',
                       '_l010': ' r_l=0.01',
                       '_l020': ' r_l=0.02',
                      '_l050': ' r_l=0.05',
diff --git a/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battleutil/interpretingelo.py b/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battleutil/interpretingelo.py
index df7e0145..e8010cf9 100644
--- a/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battleutil/interpretingelo.py
+++ b/research/legacy_skatervaluation/battleutil/interpretingelo.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def infer_categorical_and_ordinal(elos):
             for wd in name_words:
                 for r_old, r_new in MODEL_KEY_REPLACEMENTS.items():
                     wd = wd.replace(r_old, r_new)
-                wd_head = re.search("[^\d]*", wd).group()
+                wd_head = re.search("[^\\d]*", wd).group()
                 if wd == wd_head:
                     if wd not in MODEL_KEYS_NOT_USED:
                         categorical.add(wd_head)
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def make_model_regs_elo(elos, categorical, ordinal):
                 if wd in categorical:
                     pair = (wd+'_hot',1)
                 else:
-                    wd_head = re.search("[^\d]*", wd).group()
+                    wd_head = re.search("[^\\d]*", wd).group()
                     if wd_head in categorical:
                         pair = (wd+'_hot',1)
                     elif wd_head in ordinal:
diff --git a/research/legacy_skatervaluation/schurcomparisonutil/schurportpaperutils.py b/research/legacy_skatervaluation/schurcomparisonutil/schurportpaperutils.py
index fb9442e0..20f704b0 100644
--- a/research/legacy_skatervaluation/schurcomparisonutil/schurportpaperutils.py
+++ b/research/legacy_skatervaluation/schurcomparisonutil/schurportpaperutils.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def moment_plot(moments: dict, sty='go'):
             normalized_moments = dict([(k, v / moments['g000']) for k, v in moments.items()])
             moment_plot(moments=normalized_moments, sty=sty)
 
-        plt.title('Portfolio variance as $\gamma$ is varied')
+        plt.title('Portfolio variance as $\\gamma$ is varied')
         full_xlabel = xlabel + ' benefit=' + str(round(np.mean(bps))) + ' bps'
         plt.xlabel(full_xlabel)
         plt.show()