Fair competition design
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Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak
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Resumen
We study the impact of two basic principles of fairness on the
structure of competition systems and perform our analysis by focusing on sports competitions. The first principle states that equally
strong players should have the same chances of being the final winner, while the second principle requires that the competition system
should not favor weaker players. We apply these requirements to ...
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We study the impact of two basic principles of fairness on the
structure of competition systems and perform our analysis by focusing on sports competitions. The first principle states that equally
strong players should have the same chances of being the final winner, while the second principle requires that the competition system
should not favor weaker players. We apply these requirements to a
class of competitions which includes, but is not limited to, the sport
tournament systems that are most commonly used in practice, such
as round-robin tournaments and different kinds of knockout competitions, and we characterize the structures satisfying these requirements. In our results, a new competition structure that we call an antler is
found to play a referential role. Finally, we show that the class of fair
competition systems becomes rather small when both fairness principles are jointly applied. [--]
Materias
Equal treatment,
Monotonicity,
Seeding,
Sport competition
Serie
Documentos de Trabajo DE - ES Lan Gaiak /
1803
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ekonomia Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE
Entidades Financiadoras
Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Project ECO2015-65031-R MINECO/FEDER, UE) is
acknowledged.