League competitions and fairness
Fecha
2023Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.1007/s10878-023-01030-9
Resumen
We formulate two fairness principles and characterize the league competition systems that satisfy them. The first principle requires that all players should have the same chance of being the final winner if all players are equally strong, while the second states that the league competition should not favor weaker players. We apply these requirements to a class of systems which includes round-robi ...
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We formulate two fairness principles and characterize the league competition systems that satisfy them. The first principle requires that all players should have the same chance of being the final winner if all players are equally strong, while the second states that the league competition should not favor weaker players. We apply these requirements to a class of systems which includes round-robin tournaments as a particular case. [--]
Materias
Assignment,
Fairness,
League competition,
OR in sports,
Round-robin tournaments,
Tournament design
Editor
Springer
Publicado en
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 45, 101 (2023)
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
Versión del editor
Entidades Financiadoras
Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Project ECO2015-65031-R MINECO/FEDER, UE) is acknowledged. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.