How to design a multi-stage tournament when some results are carried over?

DOI10.1007/S00291-022-00671-2MaRDI QIDQ2676267zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors László Csató

Publication date 27 September 2022

Published in OR Spectrum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04183

zbMATH Keywords

handballincentive compatibilityOR in sportssimulationtournament design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-10) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Noncooperative games (91A10)

Abstract: The paper discusses the strategy-proofness of sports tournaments with multiple group stages, where the results of matches already played in the previous round against teams in the same group are carried over. These tournaments, widely used in handball and other sports, are shown to be incentive incompatible in the sense that a team can be strictly better off by not exerting full effort in a game. Historical examples are presented when a team was ex ante disinterested in winning by a high margin. We propose a family of incentive compatible designs. Their main characteristics are compared to the original format via simulations. Carrying over half of the points scored in the previous round turns out to be a promising policy.

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