Ranking by pairwise comparisons for Swiss-system tournaments

DOI10.1007/S10100-012-0261-8zbMATH Open1339.91033arXiv1508.06773OpenAlexW3103786686MaRDI QIDQ301136FDOQ301136

László Csató

Publication date: 29 June 2016

Published in: CEJOR. Central European Journal of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Pairwise comparison matrices are widely used in Multicriteria Decision Making. This article applies incomplete pairwise comparison matrices in the area of sport tournaments, namely proposing alternative rankings for the 2010 Chess Olympiad Open tournament. It is shown that results are robust regarding scaling technique. In order to compare different rankings, a distance function is introduced with the aim of taking into account the subjective nature of human perception. Analysis of the weight vectors implies that methods based on pairwise comparisons have common roots. Visualization of the results is provided by Multidimensional Scaling on the basis of the defined distance. The proposed rankings give in some cases intuitively better outcome than currently used lexicographical orders.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06773

zbMATH Keywords

multidimensional scalingmulticriteria decision makingincomplete pairwise comparison matrixranking for Swiss-system tournaments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical ranking and selection procedures (62F07) Decision theory (91B06) General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05)

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