… showed that existing FIFA tournament formats are not … proposed a reliable tournament format
whose implementation cost is lower than all but the 2nd FIFA (1934/1938 world cups) format…

… tournament design and schedule. In this paper, we propose tournament formats for a World
Cup … , no dead rubbers, and a tournament length of about one month. At the same time, our …

… format does not eliminate the possibility of collusion. In this chapter, we propose tournament
formats for a World Cup … time, our proposals attempt to adhere to the traditional format, with …

… proposals strictly outperform the FIFA ranking. Note that seven proposals improve upon
the FIFA … , our findings form the basis for a number of simple proposals. These consist in …

… FIFA had initially proposed a different competition system, with 16 groups of three teams [1].
With this distribution in three-team groups, there would be a more natural transition to the …

… So in their simple forms, the structures we study cover the World Cup formats. The RR is
included for comparison purposes – it is not a practical structure for a 3-week tournament as too …

… a proposal for a new soft computing innovative method called by “CFE” for evaluation of the
football matches of FIFA (… World Cup or EURO Cup matches that the existing method of FIFA(…

… In this competition there is only one winner which has the best position rather than the … a
new technique for optimization of mathematic functions based on FIFA World Cup competitions. …

… I propose a double-elimination 48-teams cup format … tournament formats considered by the
FIFA Council: the 18 groups of 3 teams and the 12 groups of 4 teams. In the group-of-3 format…

… Chapter 4 moves to the already mentioned problem of penalty shootout rules in soccer,
where we evaluate the fairness and complexity of some alternative kicking order proposed in the …