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Mitigating the risk of tanking in multi-stage tournaments
László Csató
Multi-stage tournaments consisting of a round-robin group stage followed by a knockout phase are ubiquitous in sports. However, this format is incentive incompatible if at least tw…
A note on the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 draw
László Csató
A paper published in a leading journal of management science has recently analysed the mechanism used for the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 draw. Since the authors have not bee…
On head-to-head results as tie-breaker and consequent opportunities for collusion
László Csató
The outcome of some football matches has benefited both teams at the expense of a third team because head-to-head results were used for breaking ties. Inspired by these examples, o…
Tournament schedules and incentives in a double round-robin tournament with four teams
László Csató, Roland Molontay, József Pintér
In a round-robin tournament, a team may lack the incentive to win if its final rank does not depend on the outcome of the matches still to be played. This paper introduces a classi…