Dynamic Tournament Design: Evidence from Prediction Contests

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Lemus ◽  
Guillermo Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Tournament Design

A NOTE ON BALANCED HOWELL ROTATIONS FOR TWIN PRIME POWER TYPE

2012 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250056
Author(s):  
JOONMO KIM ◽  
LI SHENG
Keyword(s):  
Prime Power ◽  
Power Type ◽  
Tournament Design

The balanced Howell rotation is a tournament design for bridge. In this note, we show that it exists for n teams where n - 1 is a product of twin prime powers and n ≤ 1020.

An experimental study on tournament design

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Harbring ◽  
Bernd Irlenbusch
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Tournament Design

A Tournament Design Problem

1977 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenifer Haselgrove ◽  
John Leech
Keyword(s):  
Design Problem ◽  
Tournament Design

Interplay between Constraints and Rewards in Innovation Tournaments: Implications for Participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 2040004
Author(s):  
Swanand J. Deodhar
Keyword(s):  
Negative Association ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
Monetary Rewards ◽  
Tournament Design ◽  
Reward Amount

In this study, we examine how the monetary rewards and competitive constraints that organizers of innovation tournaments incorporate are associated with participation. These two aspects of innovation tournaments are crucial because they represent critical design decisions that the organizers must make beforehand. We show that the reward amount is negatively associated with participation, while the presence of competitive constraints, which “make the competitive landscape less asymmetric”, is positively associated with participation. Furthermore, the study shows that competitive constraints moderate the negative association between reward amount and participation. These findings provide insights into contestant motivation as well as the interdependencies between tournament design choices.

scholarly journals Balanced tournament designs with almost orthogonal resolutions

1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. R. Lamken ◽  
S. A. Vanstone
Keyword(s):  
Tournament Design ◽  
Doubly Resolvable

AbstractA balanced tournament design, BTD(n), defined on a 2n—set V is an arrangement of the () distinct unordered pairs of the elements of V into an n × 2n − 1 array such that (1) every element of V is contained in precisely one cell of each column, and (2) every element of V is contained in at most two cells of each row. In this paper, we investigate the existence of balanced tournament designs with a pair of almost orthogonal resolutions. These designs can be used to construct doubly resolvable (ν, 3, 2)- BIBD s and, in our smallest applications, have been used to construct previously unknown doubly resolvable (ν, 3, 2)- B I B D s.

scholarly journals Optimal Tournament Design: Lessons From the Men’s Handball Champions League

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 848-868
Author(s):  
László Csató
Keyword(s):  
Round Robin ◽  
Round Robin Tournaments ◽  
Tournament Design ◽  
Uncertainty Of Outcome

This paper challenges the traditional seeding regime of round-robin tournaments that aims to create balanced groups. In particular, the design of the most prestigious European men’s handball club competition is compared to two alternative formats with equally strong groups via simulations. We find that it is possible to increase the quality of all matches played together with raising the uncertainty of outcome, essentially without sacrificing fairness. Our results have useful implications for the governing bodies of major sports.

Sorted or pooled? Optimal tournament design for heterogeneous contestants

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (S5) ◽  
pp. 12641-12648
Author(s):  
Guangxing Wei ◽  
Binta Bary ◽  
Yanhong Qin
Keyword(s):  
Tournament Design
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