University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Any opinions or claims contained in this Working Paper do not necessarily reflect the views of HSE What is the optimal way to seed a knockout tournament in order to maximize the overall spectator interest in it? Seeding affects the set of matches being played in the tournament, while neutral spectators tend to prefer to watch (i) close and intense ma...

Every year, billions of dollars are spent gambling on the outcomes of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The current work examines how individuals make predictions for one of the most popular forms of betting, tournament pools, in which individuals must correctly predict as many games in the tournament as possible. We demonstrate that individuals predict more upsets (i.e., wins by a higher-s...

A cycle C = {v1, v2, . . . , v1} in a tournament T is said to be even, if when walking along C, an even number of edges point in the wrong direction, that is, they are directed from vi+1 to vi. In this short paper, we show that for every fixed even integer k ≥ 4, if close to half of the k-cycles in a tournament T are even, then T must be quasi-random. This resolves an open question raised in 19...

Few families of tournaments satisfying the n-e.c. adjacency property are known. We supply a new random construction for generating infinite families of vertex-transitive n-e.c. tournaments by considering circulant tournaments. Switching is used to generate new ne.c. tournaments of certain orders. With aid of a computer search, we demonstrate that there is a unique minimum order 3-e.c. tournamen...

Background:   H2-EB1 molecule which is the homolog of Human HLA-DRB1 is proposed to be associated with allergic rhinitis (AR). Construction of   H2-Eb1 knockout animal models provides a tool to elucidate the role of H2-EB1 and AR pathogenesis. Objective:   To establish the H2-Eb1 knockout model and investigate the H2-EB1 functions in   H2-Eb1 knockout mice as a model of AR. Methods: The Cre/Lox...

OBJECTIVE To examine the use of medication of top-level male players during the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. DESIGN Retrospective survey. PARTICIPANTS/INFORMATION 736 top level players. SETTING The teams' physicians disclosed a list of the medications used by each player within 72 h before each match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. OUTCOME MEASURES Average number of medications used p...

The placement of teams, or players, into a tournament’s brackets can have a significant impact on who will emerge as the champion. At Wimbledon, 32 players are seeded among the 128 singles entrants in that particular tennis tournament. UEFA coefficients are used to select those European soccer clubs that will compete for the Champions League and Europa League titles in the following season. Tea...

This paper provides an explanation for why cartels are not observed frequently in mineral-rights auctions even though it was not illegal for them to form. We use the techniques of mechanism design to characterize the e±cient, incentive compatible cartel and show that it can be implemented by a ̄rstprice knockout tournament with information sharing. We show, however, that bidders with the highes...

The aim of this study is to use quantitative research methods and causality models investigate the proposed hypothesis mobile learning-based team game tournament learning model effect on recount text writing ability: Role Learning Style as a Moderating Variable. participants in are pupils from Kartasura's Al-Islam Junior High School. This study's sample consisted 100 students chosen using basic...

This paper proposes a method that combines tournament selectionbased genetic algorithms (GA) with simulated annealing (SA) to improve the performance of GA. Furthermore random signal-based learning (RSBL) is added as an additional GA operator to refine the solutions after mutation. The fuzzy controller for the inverted pendulum is used to verify the validity of the proposed method.