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Universal statistics of the knockout tournament.


ABSTRACT: We study statistics of the knockout tournament, where only the winner of a fixture progresses to the next. We assign a real number called competitiveness to each contestant and find that the resulting distribution of prize money follows a power law with an exponent close to unity if the competitiveness is a stable quantity and a decisive factor to win a match. Otherwise, the distribution is found narrow. The existing observation of power law distributions in various kinds of real sports tournaments therefore suggests that the rules of those games are constructed in such a way that it is possible to understand the games in terms of the contestants' inherent characteristics of competitiveness.

SUBMITTER: Baek SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3824171 | biostudies-other | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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