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Soccer Team Vectors
In this work we present STEVE - Soccer TEam VEctors, a principled approa...
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Soccer League Optimization: A heuristic Algorithm Inspired by the Football System in European Countries
In this paper a new heuristic optimization algorithm has been introduced...
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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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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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Approximately Strategyproof Tournament Rules: On Large Manipulating Sets and Cover-Consistence
We consider the manipulability of tournament rules, in which n teams pla...
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Ordinal Regression with Fenton-Wilkinson Order Statistics: A Case Study of an Orienteering Race
In sports, individuals and teams are typically interested in final ranki...
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A quest for a fair schedule: The Young Physicists' Tournament
The Young Physicists Tournament is an established team-oriented scientif...
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The unfairness of the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
The qualification for the UEFA European Championship 2020 is strongly connected to the inaugural season 2018-19 of the UEFA Nations League. The latter competition divides the 55 UEFA national teams into four leagues, and the qualifying play-offs guarantee at least one place in the final tournament for the best four teams of each league. Consequently, we found that being a top team in the lowest-ranked League D can substantially increase the probability of qualification compared to being a bottom team in League C because the probability of direct qualification is negligible for the teams competing for these places. It may undermine credibility: the current rules may punish stronger performance in recent matches, and create incentives for strategic manipulation. UEFA is encouraged to reform the format of qualifications in order to minimise the unfair advantage enjoyed by the top teams of UEFA Nations League D.
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