For every sports tournament, it is an important requirement to provide contestants with the
appropriate incentives to perform. However, incentive compatibility is usually considered an …

Fairness has several interpretations in sports, one of them being that the rules should
guarantee incentive compatibility, namely, a team cannot be worse off due to better results in …

If the final position of a team is already secured independently of the outcomes of the
remaining games in a round-robin tournament, it might play with little enthusiasm. This is …

This paper investigates the fairness of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying competition via
Monte Carlo simulations. The qualifying probabilities are calculated for 102 nations, all …

After the expansion of the FIFA World Cup from 32 to 48 teams starting from the 2026
edition, the initial proposal was to split the 48 national teams into 16 groups of three. Among …

This paper investigates the multifaceted dimensions of sport promotion, development, and
integrity within the context of men's football in Europe. It specifically focuses on the impact of …

The play-offs of the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying tournament determine the last four
participants in the UEFA European Championship 2020. Sixteen teams, which have failed to …

ABSTRACT The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) distributes commercial
revenue from its club competitions according to a complex mechanism. Coefficient-based …

We study round-robin tournaments with four symmetric players and two identical prizes
where players compete against each other in games modeled as an all-pay contest. We …

Integrated information systems in sports have the potential to improve the efficiency of data
management and support the managers' decision-making. However, this implementation …