League competitions and fairness

Ritxar Arlegi () and Dinko Dimitrov ()
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Ritxar Arlegi: Public University of Navarre
Dinko Dimitrov: Saarland University

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2023, vol. 45, issue 4, No 6, 18 pages

Abstract: Abstract We formulate two fairness principles and characterize the league competition systems that satisfy them. The first principle requires that all players should have the same chance of being the final winner if all players are equally strong, while the second states that the league competition should not favor weaker players. We apply these requirements to a class of systems which includes round-robin tournaments as a particular case.

Keywords: Assignment; Fairness; League competition; OR in sports; Round-robin tournaments; Tournament design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s10878-023-01030-9

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