League competitions and fairness

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 no...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Arlegi Pérez, Ricardo, Dimitrov, Dinko
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/45611
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/45611
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Assignment
Fairness
League competition
OR in sports
Round-robin tournaments
Tournament design
Descrição
Resumo: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.