Effort allocations in elimination tournaments

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2021.110261MaRDI QIDQ2126169zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aner Sela

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110261

zbMATH Keywords

elimination tournamentsknockout tournamentssubgame-perfect equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multistage and repeated games (91A20) Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32)

Recommendations

• Optimal seedings in elimination tournaments
• Prize and incentives in double-elimination tournaments
• Two-stage elimination contests with optimal head starts
• Round-robin tournaments with limited resources
• Effort comparisons for a class of four-player tournaments

Cites work

• A comparison of the effectiveness of tournaments
• Comparing Draws for Single Elimination Tournaments
• Dynamic contests with resource constraints
• New Concepts in Seeding Knockout Tournaments
• On the Probability of Winning with Different Tournament Procedures
• Optimal seedings in elimination tournaments
• TOURNAMENTS AND PAIRED COMPARISONS
• What is the Correct Way to Seed a Knockout Tournament?

Cited in

(7)

• Prize and incentives in double-elimination tournaments
• Fatigue accumulation in dynamic contests
• Single- and double-elimination tournaments under psychological momentum
• Reducing the pairing effect in 4-team double-elimination tournaments
• How can an elimination tournament favor a weaker player?
• Is there free riding in group contests?
• Two-stage elimination games

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