Making the Rules of Sports Fairer

DOI10.1137/16M1074540zbMATH Open1407.91010MaRDI QIDQ3133147FDOQ3133147

Steven J. Brams, M. S. Ismail

Publication date: 13 February 2018

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

fairnesstennisMarkov processstrategyproofnesssoccersports rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) 2-person games (91A05)

Cites Work

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• How to divide the possession of a football?
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• Can strategizing in round-robin subtournaments be avoided?
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• Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive

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• Designing practical and fair sequential team contests: the case of penalty shootouts
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• Separable rules to share the revenues from broadcasting sports leagues
• Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive
• A comparison of penalty shootout designs in soccer
• Fair elimination-type competitions
• Fairer Shootouts in Soccer: The ( m, n ) Rule
• League competitions and fairness

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