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Ranking in Swiss system chess team tournaments

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  • Csató, László

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The paper uses paired comparison-based scoring procedures for ranking the participants of a Swiss system chess team tournament. We present the main challenges of ranking in Swiss system, the features of individual and team competitions as well as the failures of official lexicographical orders. The tournament is represented as a ranking problem, our model is discussed with respect to the properties of the score, generalized row sum and least squares methods. The proposed procedure is illustrated with a detailed analysis of the two recent chess team European championships. Final rankings are compared by their distances and visualized with multidimensional scaling (MDS). Differences to official ranking are revealed by the decomposition of least squares method. Rankings are evaluated by prediction accuracy, retrodictive performance, and stability. The paper argues for the use of least squares method with a results matrix favoring match points.

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  • Csató, László, 2015. "Ranking in Swiss system chess team tournaments," Corvinus Economics Working Papers (CEWP) 2015/01, Corvinus University of Budapest.
    • Handle: RePEc:cvh:coecwp:2015/01
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    Keywords

    paired comparison; ranking; least squares method; Swiss system; chess;
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    • D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations

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