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An effective system of sports competition management

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  • Roman Szostek

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An innovatory system of managing sports competitions has been presented. Its advantages with regard to other currently used systems are discussed. A theorem connected with such a system has been presented in the last section of the paper. Sports competitions aim to establish a ranking of the participating teams. This consists of sorting teams according to a quality which can be thought of as the ability to win matches. Direct measurement of this quality is not possible, since the ability to win matches depends on a great variety of factors being difficult to determine. Nevertheless, it is possible to compare any two teams if they play a match. These matches are played under normal rules. In turn, all the rules valid during sports competitions, outside the matches, make a system of sport competi- tion. Sorting sports teams differs from typical problems of sorting. The result of a comparison of teams is sometimes misleading. It happens that a team with a greater ability to win matches loses a match to a team with a smaller ability to win matches. Thus, the problem of sorting teams is a prob- abilistic problem. Due to this reason, traditional sorting methods are ineffective in terms of managing sports competitions.

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  • Roman Szostek, 2011. "An effective system of sports competition management," Operations Research and Decisions, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Management, vol. 21(1), pages 65-75.
    • Handle: RePEc:wut:journl:v:1:y:2011:p:65-75:id:179
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    1. Virtue Ekhosuehi, 2018. "On the one-shot two-person zero-sum game in football from a penalty kicker’s perspective," Operations Research and Decisions, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Management, vol. 28(3), pages 17-27.

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