Making the Rules of Sports Fairer

DOI10.1137/16M1074540zbMath1407.91010MaRDI QIDQ3133147

Steven J. Brams, Mehmet S. Ismail

Publication date: 13 February 2018

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

fairnessMarkov processstrategyproofnesssoccertennissports rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20)

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