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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Arlegi Pérez, Ricardo, Dimitrov, Dinko
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/45611
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/45611
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Assignment
Fairness
League competition
OR in sports
Round-robin tournaments
Tournament design
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Sumario: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.