Tournament design: A review from an operational research perspective

K Devriesere, L Csató, D Goossens - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.05034, 2024 - arxiv.org
Every sport needs rules. Tournament design refers to the rules that determine how a
tournament, a series of games between a number of competitors, is organized. This study …

Revenue sharing at music streaming platforms

G Bergantiños, JD Moreno-Ternero - Management Science, 2025 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the problem of sharing the revenues raised from subscriptions to music streaming
platforms among content providers. We provide direct, axiomatic, and game-theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] Monotonicity in sharing the revenues from broadcasting sports leagues

G Bergantiños, JD Moreno-Ternero - European Journal of Operational …, 2022 - Elsevier
We explore the implications of the principle of monotonicity in the problem of sharing the
revenues from broadcasting sports leagues. We formalize different forms of this principle as …

Involution-cooperation-lying flat game on a network-structured population in the group competition

H Chaocheng, H Qian, L **nru… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, on the Chinese internet, the term “involution” refers to intense but meaningless
competition for limited resources, also known as “the inflation of effort.” Involution is a …

Revenue allocation in Formula One: a pairwise comparison approach

DG Petróczy, L Csató - International Journal of General Systems, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A model is proposed to allocate Formula One World Championship prize money
among the constructors. The methodology is based on pairwise comparison matrices, allows …

[HTML][HTML] Solidarity to achieve stability

J Alcalde-Unzu, O Gallo, E Inarra… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Agents may form coalitions. Each coalition shares its endowment among its agents by
applying a sharing rule. The sharing rule induces a coalition formation problem by assuming …

How should we score athletes and candidates: geometric scoring rules

AY Kondratev, E Ianovski… - Operations …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Scoring rules are widely used to rank athletes in sports and candidates in elections. Each
position in each individual ranking is worth a certain number of points; the total sum of points …

Broadcasting revenue sharing after cancelling sports competitions

G Bergantiños, JD Moreno-Ternero - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the partial or total cancellation of most sports competitions
worldwide. Sports organizations crucially rely on revenues raised from broadcasting. How …

Axiomatic characterizations of the core and the Shapley value of the broadcasting game

G Bergantiños, JD Moreno-Ternero - International Journal of Game Theory, 2024 - Springer
We study the cooperative game associated with a broadcasting problem (the allocation of
revenues raised from the collective sale of broadcasting rights for a sports tournament). We …

The unfairness of the revenue distribution system used in the UEFA club competitions

L Csató - International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) distributes commercial
revenue from its club competitions according to a complex mechanism. Coefficient-based …