Journal article
Comparing Draws for Single Elimination Tournaments
Operations research, Vol.33(2), pp.249-262
03/01/1985
DOI: 10.1287/opre.33.2.249
Abstract
Tournaments are used to select a single winner from a group of participants in a sporting event or a paired-comparison experiment. This study compares different draws, or pairings, of teams in single-elimination tournaments under a set of relatively nonrestricting assumptions about the participating teams' pairwise probabilities of winning. We analyze and compare draws for four-team tournaments using various criteria, then attempt to generalize the results to eight-team tournaments. For example, only one-four team draw maximizes the probability that the best team wins for all pairwise probabilities, whereas eight draws are possibly optimal for eight-team tournaments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Comparing Draws for Single Elimination Tournaments
- Creators
- Jeff Horen - AT&TRaymond Riezman - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Operations research, Vol.33(2), pp.249-262
- DOI
- 10.1287/opre.33.2.249
- ISSN
- 0030-364X
- eISSN
- 1526-5463
- Number of pages
- 14
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1985
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984963102002771
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