An improved double-elimination tournament with application to the FIFA World Cup

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Authors Samuel S. Wu, Mark C. K. Yang

Publication date 24 February 2009

zbMATH Keywords

double eliminationFIFA world cuptournament system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) Applications of graph theory (05C90) Optimal statistical designs (62K05) Multistage and repeated games (91A20)

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