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Match forecasts in UEFA club competitions: Elo ratings versus Transfermarkt valuations
Gergely Csurilla, László Csató
The pre-season strengths of European football clubs are usually measured by two proxies in the literature. Football Club Elo Ratings provide strictly performance-based Elo ratings…
Match classification in the last round of four-team round-robin tournaments
László Csató, András Gyimesi
Classification of matches played in the last rounds of sports competitions is a well-established tool for evaluating tournament designs. Both deterministic and probabilistic approa…
A probabilistic match classification model for low-scoring sports
László Csató, András Gyimesi
All existing match classification models in the tournament design literature suffer from two major limitations: a contestant is considered indifferent only if uncertain future resu…
Encouraging offensive play: A hidden benefit of incomplete round-robin tournaments
László Csató, David Winkelmann
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) fundamentally reformed its club competitions from the 2024/25 season onward. The traditional group stage has been replaced by an…
The uncertainty of a tournament draw: Insights from the Champions League
László Csató, András Gyimesi, Dries Goossens +3
The group draw of major sports tournaments implies some uncertainty, with lucky teams often enjoying a substantial unfair advantage. First in the literature, we propose a technique…
How to optimise tournament draws: The case of the FIFA World Cup
László Csató
The organisers of major sports competitions use different policies with respect to constraints in the group draw. Our paper aims to rationalise these choices by analysing the trade…
The allocation of FIFA World Cup slots based on the ranking of confederations
László Csató, László Marcell Kiss, Zsombor Szádoczki
Qualifications for several world championships in sports are organised such that distinct sets of teams play in their own tournament for a predetermined number of slots. Inspired b…