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04/18/2023
Club coefficients in the UEFA Champions League: Time for the shift to an Elo-based formula
One of the most popular club football tournaments, the UEFA Champions Le...
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03/16/2023
Improving the fairness of constrained assignments: The role of draw order in the UEFA Champions League
The organiser of the UEFA Champions League, one of the most prestigious ...
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11/29/2022
Minimising the risk of tanking in tournaments with a preliminary round-robin group stage
Multi-stage tournaments consisting of a round-robin group stage followed...
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11/17/2022
Right-left asymmetry of the eigenvector method: A simulation study
The eigenvalue method, suggested by the developer of the extensively use...
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06/08/2022
How to prevent collusion created by tie-breaking rules
Games played in the last round of a round-robin tournament inspire match...
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04/11/2022
What is the optimal schedule for the UEFA Champions League groups?
In a sports competition, a team might lose a powerful incentive to exert...
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03/31/2022
Group draw with unknown qualified teams: A lesson from the 2022 FIFA World Cup draw
The draw for the 2022 FIFA World Cup has been organised before the ident...
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01/28/2022
How to avoid uncompetitive games? The importance of tie-breaking rules
In a round-robin tournament, if the final position of a team is already ...
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10/26/2021
On the consequences of draw restrictions in knockout tournaments
The paper analyses how draw constraints influence the outcome of a knock...
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09/28/2021
Fairer group draw for sports tournaments with restrictions
Some recent sports tournaments establish restrictions in the draw of the...
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04/07/2021
Quantifying incentive (in)compatibility: a case study from sports
Incentive compatibility is usually considered a binary concept in the ac...
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03/21/2021
Analysing the restricted assignment problem of the group draw in sports tournaments
Many sports tournaments contain a group stage where the allocation of te...
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03/10/2021
The efficacy of tournament designs
Tournaments are a widely used mechanism to rank alternatives in a noisy ...
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02/21/2021
Extension of Saaty's inconsistency index to incomplete comparisons: Approximated thresholds
Pairwise comparison matrices are increasingly used in settings where som...
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01/12/2021
A comparative study of scoring systems by simulations
Scoring rules aggregate individual rankings by assigning some points to ...
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05/27/2020
Bibliometric indices as a measure of competition in sports
We argue for the application of bibliometric indices to quantify the int...
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05/05/2020
Coronavirus and sports leagues: how to obtain a fair ranking if the season cannot resume?
Many sports leagues are played in a tightly scheduled round-robin format...
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05/05/2020
Coronavirus and sports leagues: how to obtaina fair ranking if the season cannot resume?
Many sports leagues are played in a tightly scheduled round-robin format...
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04/20/2020
A comprehensive analysis of soccer penalty shootout designs
The standard design of soccer penalty shootouts has received serious cri...
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12/14/2019
Why is the current seeding regime of the UEFA Champions League unfair?
Fairness has several interpretations in sports, one of them being that t...
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12/04/2019
UEFA against the champions? An evaluation of the recent reform of the Champions League qualification
The UEFA Champions League is the major football club tournament organise...
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09/25/2019
A revenue allocation scheme based on pairwise comparisons
A model of sharing revenues among groups when group members are ranked s...
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05/08/2019
The unfairness of the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
The qualification for the UEFA European Championship 2020 is strongly co...
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04/08/2019
Journal ranking should depend on the level of aggregation
Journal ranking, that is, placing journals within their respective field...
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11/28/2018
How to design a tournament: lessons from the men's handball Champions League
Many sports tournaments are organised in a hybrid design consisting of a...
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11/28/2018
How to design a tournament: lessons from the men's handball EHF Champions League
Many sports tournaments are organised in a hybrid design consisting of a...
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11/28/2018
How to design a tournament: lessons from the EHF men's handball Champions League
Many sports tournaments are organised in a hybrid design consisting of a...
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10/09/2018
A universal university ranking from the revealed preferences of the applicants
A methodology is presented to rank universities on the basis of the appl...
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10/09/2018
A universal university ranking from the preferences of the applicants
A methodology is presented to rank universities on the basis of the appl...
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06/04/2018
A fairer penalty shootout design in soccer
Penalty shootout in soccer is known to be unfair ex post: the team kicki...
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03/29/2018
A simulation comparison of tournament designs for world men's handball championships
There exist many alternative formats to tournaments for game sports and ...
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01/10/2018
Axiomatizations of inconsistency indices for triads
Pairwise comparison matrices often exhibit inconsistency, therefore, a n...
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11/02/2016
An application of incomplete pairwise comparison matrices for ranking top tennis players
Pairwise comparison is an important tool in multi-attribute decision mak...
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10/24/2016