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When sports rules go awry

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  1. Devriesere, Karel & Csató, László & Goossens, Dries, 2025. "Tournament design: A review from an operational research perspective," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 324(1), pages 1-21.
  2. Ritxar Arlegi & Dinko Dimitrov, 2023. "League competitions and fairness," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 45(4), pages 1-18, May.
  3. Krumer, Alex & Megidish, Reut & Sela, Aner, 2023. "Strategic manipulations in round-robin tournaments," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 50-57.
  4. Lenten, Liam J.A. & Smith, Aaron C.T. & Boys, Noel, 2018. "Evaluating an alternative draft pick allocation policy to reduce ‘tanking’ in the Australian Football League," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(1), pages 315-320.
  5. Csató, László, 2019. "A note on the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying play-offs," MPRA Paper 93006, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  6. László Csató, 2025. "Mitigating the risk of tanking in multi-stage tournaments," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 344(1), pages 135-151, January.
  7. Arlegi, Ritxar & Dimitrov, Dinko, 2020. "Fair elimination-type competitions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 287(2), pages 528-535.
  8. Bergantiños, Gustavo & Moreno-Ternero, Juan D., 2022. "Monotonicity in sharing the revenues from broadcasting sports leagues," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 297(1), pages 338-346.
  9. Daniel Read & Aaron C.T. Smith & James Skinner, 2021. "A Comparative Analysis of Competitive Balance Between a Closed and an Open League in Rugby League," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 22(8), pages 871-892, December.
  10. Nejat Anbarci & Mehmet S Ismail, 2024. "AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(11), pages 1-17, November.
  11. Bas J. Dietzenbacher & Aleksei Y. Kondratev, 2023. "Fair and Consistent Prize Allocation in Competitions," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 69(6), pages 3319-3339, June.
  12. Karlsson Niklas & Lunander Anders, 2024. "The strategic jump-the order effect on winning “The Final Three” in long jump competitions," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 20(3), pages 265-276.
  13. Stuart Baumann & Carl Singleton, 2025. "They were Robbed! Scoring by the Middlemost to Attenuate Biased Judging in Boxing," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 26(7), pages 771-782, October.
  14. Robert Butler & Liam J. A. Lenten & Patrick Massey, 2020. "Bonus incentives and team effort levels: Evidence from the “Field”," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 67(5), pages 539-550, November.
  15. László Csató & László Marcell Kiss & Zsombor Szádoczki, 2025. "The allocation of FIFA World Cup slots based on the ranking of confederations," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 344(1), pages 153-173, January.
  16. Waldemar Stronka, 2020. "Anti-Tanking Pair Matching before an Elimination Phase of a Two-Phase Tournament," Economies, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-13, August.
  17. Csató, László, 2023. "How to avoid uncompetitive games? The importance of tie-breaking rules," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(3), pages 1260-1269.
  18. László Csató, 2022. "How to design a multi-stage tournament when some results are carried over?," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 44(3), pages 683-707, September.
  19. Peter-J. Jost, 2021. "Competitive Balance and the Away Goals Rule During Extra Time," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 22(7), pages 823-863, October.
  20. Szádoczki, Zsombor, 2022. "Operációkutatás a sportok profitabilitásáért. László Csató: Tournament Design. How Operations Research Can Improve Sports Rules? Palgrave Pivots in Sports Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 175 o [Operation studies on the profitability of sports," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(2), pages 283-288.
  21. L'aszl'o Csat'o & L'aszl'o Marcell Kiss & Zsombor Sz'adoczki, 2023. "The allocation of FIFA World Cup slots based on the ranking of confederations," Papers 2310.19100, arXiv.org, revised May 2024.
  22. L'aszl'o Csat'o & Alex Krumer, 2024. "Swiss-system chess tournaments and unfairness," Papers 2410.19333, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2026.
  23. László Csató, 2018. "Was Zidane honest or well-informed? How UEFA barely avoided a serious scandal," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 38(1), pages 152-158.
  24. Peter Dawson & Patrick Massey & Paul Downward, 2020. "Television match officials, referees, and home advantage: Evidence from the European Rugby Cup," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 443-454, July.
  25. Scarf, Phil & Parma, Rishikesh & McHale, Ian, 2019. "On outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in sport: The case of international rugby union," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 273(2), pages 721-730.
  26. Antonio Avila-Cano & Amparo Ruiz-Sepulveda & Francisco Triguero-Ruiz, 2021. "Identifying the Maximum Concentration of Results in Bilateral Sports Competitions," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-19, June.
  27. Craig, J. Dean & Winchester, Niven, 2021. "Predicting the national football league potential of college quarterbacks," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 295(2), pages 733-743.
  28. Michal Friesl & Jan Libich & Petr Stehlík, 2020. "Fixing ice hockey’s low scoring flip side? Just flip the sides," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 292(1), pages 27-45, September.
  29. Reuven Iusepolsky & Elia Morgulev & Sima Zach, 2022. "The “Empty-Goal” Rule Change from the Perspective of International-Level Team Handball Goalkeepers," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(11), pages 1-14, May.
  30. Aleksei Y. Kondratev & Egor Ianovski & Alexander S. Nesterov, 2024. "How Should We Score Athletes and Candidates: Geometric Scoring Rules," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 72(6), pages 2507-2525, November.
  31. Avila-Cano, Antonio & Owen, P. Dorian & Triguero-Ruiz, Francisco, 2023. "Measuring competitive balance in sports leagues that award bonus points, with an application to rugby union," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(2), pages 939-952.
  32. Karlsson, Niklas & Lunander, Anders, 2022. "The Strategic Jump - The Order Effect on Winning “The Final Three” in Long Jump Competitions," Working Papers 2022:8, Örebro University, School of Business.
  33. John Considine & Liam Gallagher, 2018. "Competitive balance in a quasi-double knockout tournament," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(18), pages 2048-2055, April.
  34. Csató, László & Petróczy, Dóra Gréta, 2021. "On the monotonicity of the eigenvector method," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 292(1), pages 230-237.
  35. László Csató, 2020. "The UEFA Champions League seeding is not strategy-proof since the 2015/16 season," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 292(1), pages 161-169, September.
  36. Goller, Daniel & Krumer, Alex, 2019. "Let’s meet as usual: Do games on non-frequent days differ? Evidence from top European soccer leagues," Economics Working Paper Series 1907, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science.
  37. László Csató & Dóra Gréta Petróczy, 2025. "Competitive balance in the UEFA Champions League group stage: Novel measures show no evidence of decline," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 352(1), pages 105-120, September.
  38. Csató, László, 2017. "European qualifiers to the 2018 FIFA World Cup can be manipulated," MPRA Paper 82652, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  39. Avila-Cano, Antonio & Triguero-Ruiz, Francisco & Ordóñez-de-Haro, José Manuel, 2025. "Scoring markets: Theory and application in sports economics," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
  40. Singh, Aaditya & Scarf, Phil & Baker, Rose, 2023. "A unified theory for bivariate scores in possessive ball-sports: The case of handball," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(3), pages 1099-1112.
  41. Csató László, 2022. "The effects of draw restrictions on knockout tournaments," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 18(4), pages 227-239, December.
  42. L'aszl'o Csat'o & D'ora Gr'eta Petr'oczy, 2024. "Competitive balance in the UEFA Champions League group stage: Novel measures show no evidence of decline," Papers 2406.19222, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2025.
  43. Guajardo, Mario & Krumer, Alex, 2023. "Format and schedule proposals for a FIFA World Cup with 12 four-team groups," Discussion Papers 2023/2, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science.
  44. László Csató, 2021. "A comparison of penalty shootout designs in soccer," 4OR, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 183-198, June.
  45. Csató, László & Petróczy, Dóra Gréta, 2018. "Néhány gondolat a labdarúgás rangsorolási szabályairól a 2018. évi labdarúgó-világbajnokság európai selejtezője kapcsán [Some ideas on ranking rules in association football in the light of the European qualifiers for the 2018 world championship]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(6), pages 632-649.
  46. László Csató, 2019. "UEFA Champions League Entry Has Not Satisfied Strategyproofness in Three Seasons," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 20(7), pages 975-981, October.
  47. Aguad, Felipe & Thraves, Charles, 2024. "Optimizing pit stop strategies in Formula 1 with dynamic programming and game theory," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 319(3), pages 908-919.
  48. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, 2025. "The Beautiful Dataset," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 63(4), pages 1363-1423, December.
  49. Durán, Guillermo & Guajardo, Mario & Sauré, Denis, 2017. "Scheduling the South American Qualifiers to the 2018 FIFA World Cup by integer programming," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 262(3), pages 1109-1115.
  50. Chegere, Martin J. & Falco, Paolo & Nieddu, Marco G. & Pandolfi, Lorenzo & Stein, Mattea, 2025. "The Magic of the Game: Experimental Evidence on Sports Betting Behavior," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 240(C).
  51. Goller, Daniel & Krumer, Alex, 2020. "Let's meet as usual: Do games played on non-frequent days differ? Evidence from top European soccer leagues," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 286(2), pages 740-754.
  52. Michal Friesl & Liam J. A. Lenten & Jan Libich & Petr Stehlík, 2017. "In search of goals: increasing ice hockey’s attractiveness by a sides swap," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(9), pages 1006-1018, September.
  53. Steven J. Brams & Mehmet S. Ismail, 2024. "Multi-Tier Tournaments: Matching and Scoring Players," Papers 2407.13845, arXiv.org.
  54. Csató, László, 2022. "Quantifying incentive (in)compatibility: A case study from sports," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 302(2), pages 717-726.
  55. Csató, László, 2017. "Tournaments with subsequent group stages are incentive incompatible," MPRA Paper 83269, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  56. L'aszl'o Csat'o & Andr'as Gyimesi, 2026. "A probabilistic match classification model for sports tournaments," Papers 2601.09673, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2026.
  57. Chater, Mario & Arrondel, Luc & Gayant, Jean-Pascal & Laslier, Jean-François, 2021. "Fixing match-fixing: Optimal schedules to promote competitiveness," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 294(2), pages 673-683.
  58. Csató, László & Petróczy, Dóra Gréta, 2020. "Miért igazságtalan a 2020-as labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokság kvalifikációja? [Why is qualification for the 2020 European association football championship unfair?]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(7), pages 734-747.
  59. David Butler & Robert Butler & Carl Singleton, 2026. "Objective Calls Under the Spotlight: Referee Consistency and Behaviour on Football's Biggest Stage," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 27(2), pages 171-213, February.
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