On the distribution of winners' scores in a round-robin tournament
Probability
2023-11-28 v2 Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
In a classical chess round-robin tournament, each of players wins, draws, or loses a game against each of the other players. A win rewards a player with 1 points, a draw with 1/2 point, and a loss with 0 points. We are interested in the distribution of the scores associated with ranks of players after games, i.e. the distribution of the maximal score, second maximum, and so on. The exact distribution for a general seems impossible to obtain; we obtain a limit distribution.
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@article{arxiv.2201.05018,
title = {On the distribution of winners' scores in a round-robin tournament},
author = {Yaakov Malinovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05018},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Main Result is proved for all values of p in the interval [0,1)