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A general framework to quantify the event importance in multi-event contests
Daniel Goller, Sandro Heiniger
We propose a statistical framework for quantifying the importance of single events that do not provide intermediate rewards but offer implicit incentives through the reward structu…
Judging the Judges: A General Framework for Evaluating the Performance of International Sports Judges
Sandro Heiniger, Hugues Mercier
The monitoring of judges and referees in sports has become an important topic due to the increasing media exposure of international sporting events and the large monetary sums invo…
National Bias of International Gymnastics Judges during the 2013-2016 Olympic Cycle
Sandro Heiniger, Hugues Mercier
National bias in sports judging is a well-known issue and has been observed in several sports: judges, in the aggregate, give higher marks to athletes of the same nationality. In t…
Judging the Judges: Evaluating the Performance of International Gymnastics Judges
Hugues Mercier, Sandro Heiniger
Judging a gymnastics routine is a noisy process, and the performance of judges varies widely. In collaboration with the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) and Longines,…