Comparing Draws for Single Elimination Tournaments

DOI10.1287/OPRE.33.2.249zbMATH Open0563.90066OpenAlexW2129280541MaRDI QIDQ3677501FDOQ3677501

Jeff Horen, Raymond Riezman

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.33.2.249

zbMATH Keywords

probabilities of winningsingle-elimination tournaments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operations research and management science (90B99)

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