2022/03/22 by Kaan Gökcesu, Gokcesu, Kaan, Hakan Gökcesu +1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Sports Analytics and Performance #Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing #Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.12011
We propose a new tournament structure that combines the popular knockout tournaments and the round-robin tournaments. As opposed to the extremes of divisive elimination and no elimination, our tournament aims to eliminate the participants as linearly as possible as a form of subtractive elimination. Our design is flexible in the sense that it can be adapted to any number of players N and any number of matches M. Our design satisfies many properties that are desirable for a tournament to select a winner and can be adapted to rank all the participating players.