Tournaments are commonly used to select winning alternatives in scenarios involving
pairwise comparisons such as sports competitions and political elections. This survey …

This study aimed to (1) use the clustering method to build a classification model based on
the play-type data of basketball players, to classify native and foreign players into different …

Originally applied to tennis by the data journalists of FiveThirtyEight. com, the Elo rating
method estimates the strength of each player based on her/his career as well as the …

Far-reaching decisions in organizations often rely on sophisticated methods of data
analysis. However, data availability is not always given in complex real-world systems, and …

Knockout tournaments constitute a popular format for organizing sports competitions. While
prior results have shown that it is often possible to manipulate a knockout tournament by …

Elo ratings-based methods, including the recently proposed Weighted Elo method, have
been found to perform well when forecasting tennis match results, however, whether they …

Skill estimation mechanisms, colloquially known as rating systems, play an important role in
competitive sports and games. They provide a measure of player skill, which incentivizes …

In this work, we study the ranking algorithm used by Fédération Internationale de Football
Association (FIFA); we analyze the parameters that it currently uses, show the formal …

The use of statistical tools for predicting the winner in tennis matches has enjoyed an
increase in popularity over the last two decades and, currently, a variety of methods are …

Association football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world, resulting in a large
economic interest from investors, team managers, and betting agencies. For this reason, a …