Anti-Tanking Pair Matching before an Elimination Phase of a Two-Phase Tournament

Perverse incentives are ubiquitous in different economic settings. In sports, they often take the form of temptation to deliberately lose matches (the phenomenon known as tanking or sandbagging). In practice, there were even such pathological situations as when a soccer team intentionally scored an...

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Main Author: Waldemar Stronka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Economies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/8/3/66