"sports tournaments make senses" say sports economists. No, idiots coherent ranking requires transitivity s.t. if A beats B and B beats C A must beat C. But single elimination tournaments do not let us observe A vs C so we can never learn whether the premise that ranks have mea
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I am told it is not the point and it is fine
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oh well thats all right then
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hmm need to rethink thishttps://twitter.com/harveykrishna_/status/1281669249203941376 …
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the process of single-elimination tournament isn't a blind study, nor reproducible. Yes it's bullshit and it's great for betting on as a gamble.
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GSL Code S (Starcraft 2), probably runs the best tournament format. Real good balance between having enough games to ensure the best usual overcome variance while keeping the tournament at a reasonable length.
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brackets are non-sense. real tournaments should use something like Elo ranking and modified round-robin pairings, and then cut to top 2 for a finals playoff after N rounds, where N is a function of the size of the competition pool.
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