Title: A New Design for Tournaments

Abstract:

The tournament designs that are used for numerous professional and amateur sports events all over the world suffer from a number of well documented deficiencies. These deficiencies typically reduce the fairness, excitement value, profitability, and credibility of those tournaments. We describe a new design that substantially reduces these problems. We validate our design using both data from professional sports tournaments and an extensive sensitivity analysis with simulated data.

Lecturer: Nicholas G. Hall

Date/Time: 8:30 – 9:20AM, 15 Dec, 2019

Location: Room A0305, CEM Building, Jiangjun Rd. Campus

Brief introduction of the lecturer:

Nicholas Hall is a professor from Fisher School of Business of the Ohio State University and the 24th chairman of INFORMS. He is also the member of the editorial board of Operations Research and Management Science. He has published more than 80 papers in Mathematics of Operations Research, Games and Economic Behavior, Interfaces, Operations Research, Management Science and other journals. H index 36, i10 index 64, 6144 total citations.