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The Best Are Always the Best: COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency and the Dispersion of Olympic Medal Outcomes
Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé
We ask whether COVID-19 lockdown stringency altered national Olympic performance between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, using the Oxford Stringency Index and the 99 countries that won a…
Regional advantage in rugby sevens: Is there a home effect when nobody is home?
Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé +1
We study the existence of a \emph{Regional Differential} in rugby sevens: whether, in tournaments where no competing team enjoys formal home status, some national sides systematica…
Visitors Out! The Absence of Away Team Supporters as a Source of Home Advantage in Football
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé
We seek to gain more insight into the effect of the crowds on the Home Advantage by analyzing the particular case of Argentinean football (also known as soccer), where for more tha…
Classes of Aggregation Rules for Ethical Decision Making in Automated Systems
Federico Fioravanti, Iyad Rahwan, Fernando Abel Tohmé
We study a class of {\em aggregation rules} that could be applied to ethical AI decision-making. These rules yield the decisions to be made by automated systems based on the inform…
The Relative Importance of Ability, Luck and Motivation in Team Sports: a Bayesian Model of Performance in the English Rugby Premiership
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé
Results in contact sports like Rugby are mainly interpreted in terms of the ability and/or luck of teams. But this neglects the important role of the {\em motivation} of players, r…
Home advantage and crowd attendance: Evidence from rugby during the Covid 19 pandemic
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé
The COVID-19 pandemic forced almost all professional and amateur sports to be played without attending crowds. Thus, it induced a large-scale natural experiment on the impact of so…
The Impact of Birth Order on Behavior in Contact Team Sports: the Evidence of Rugby Teams in Argentina
Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé
Several studies have shown that birth order and the sex of siblings may have an influence on individual behavioral traits. In particular, it has been found that second brothers (of…
Effort of rugby teams according to the bonus point system: a theoretical and empirical analysis
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Alejandro Neme +1
Using a simple game-theoretical model of contests, we compare the effort exerted by rugby teams under three different point systems used in tournaments around the world. The scorin…
Alternative Axioms in Group Identification Problems
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé
Kasher and Rubinstein (1997) introduced the problem of classifying the members of a group in terms of the opinions of their potential members. This involves a finite set of agents…
Fuzzy Group Identification Problems
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé
We present a fuzzy version of the Group Identification Problem ("Who is a J?") introduced by Kasher and Rubinstein (1997). We consider a class of agents, eac…