Fair competition design

• Ritxar Arlegi ^[1] ; Dinko Dimitrov ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Pública de Navarra

     Universidad Pública de Navarra

     Pamplona, España

     
  2. [2] Saarland University

     Saarland University

     Regionalverband Saarbrücken, Alemania

     
• Localización: Documentos de Trabajo ( Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía ), Nº. 3, 2018
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We study the impact of two basic principles of fairness on the structure of competition systems and perform our analysis by focus-ing on sports competitions. The ¿rst principle states that equally strong players should have the same chances of being the ¿nal win-ner, while the second principle requires that the competition system should not favor weaker players. We apply these requirements to a class of competitions which includes, but is not limited to, the sport tournament systems that are most commonly used in practice, such as round-robin tournaments and di¿erent kinds of knockout competi-tions, and we characterize the structures satisfying these requirements.