Was Zidane honest or well-informed? How UEFA barely avoided a serious scandal
Physics and Society
2019-06-20 v4
Abstract
UEFA European Championship 1996 qualification is known to violate strategy-proofness. It has been proved recently that a team could be better off by exerting a lower effort: it might be optimal to concede some goals in order to achieve a better position among runners-up, and hence avoid a hazardous play-off. We show that it is not only an irrelevant scenario with a marginal probability since France had an incentive to kick two own goals on its last match against Israel.
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@article{arxiv.1711.09973,
title = {Was Zidane honest or well-informed? How UEFA barely avoided a serious scandal},
author = {László Csató},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.09973},
year = {2019}
}
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6 pages