Do Stronger Players Win More Knockout Tournaments?

DOI10.2307/2286606MaRDI QIDQ4172811zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fan Chung, Frank K. Hwang

Publication date 1978

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2286606

zbMATH Keywords

Game TheoryBradley-Terry ModelGraph TheoryLinear PreferenceStochastic Transitivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15)

Cited in

(8)

• WINNER PLAYS STRUCTURE IN RANDOM KNOCKOUT TOURNAMENTS
• Probabilistic transitivity in sports
• Stronger players win more balanced knockout tournaments
• Stochastic transitivity: axioms and models
• Neighborhood monotonicity, the extended Zermelo model, and symmetric knockout tournaments
• A new and flexible approach to the analysis of paired comparison data
• Knockout tournaments with diluted Bradley-Terry preference schemes
• Team's seasonal win probabilities

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