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When neither team wants to win: a flaw of recent UEFA qualification rules
László Csató
Tanking, the act of deliberately dropping points or losing a game in order to gain some other advantage, is usually seen as being against the spirit of sports. It can be even more…
When UEFA rules had inspired unfair behavior on the field
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One of the most serious violations of fairness in sports is when a team has clear incentives to lose a match, which hurt a third, innocent team. This is shown to be not only a theo…
A comparison of penalty shootout designs in soccer
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Penalty shootout in soccer is recognized to be unfair because the team kicking first in all rounds enjoys a significant advantage. The so-called Catch-Up Rule has been suggested re…
The incentive (in)compatibility of group-based qualification systems
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Tournament organisers supposedly design rules such that a team cannot be strictly better off by exerting a lower effort. However, the European qualification tournaments for recent…
UEFA Champions League entry has not satisfied strategyproofness in three seasons
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The paper investigates the qualification for the UEFA Champions League, the most prestigious club competition in European football with respect to the theoretical property of strat…
Axiomatizations of inconsistency indices for triads
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Pairwise comparison matrices often exhibit inconsistency, therefore many indices have been suggested to measure their deviation from a consistent matrix. A set of axioms has been p…