Sports Tournaments Research Articles

Reference alternatives based knockout-tournament procedure for ranking and selection

The knockout-tournament (KT) procedure is an efficient parallel procedure recently developed to solve large-scale ranking and selection (R&S) problems. The procedure adopts a selection structure which is commonly used in many sports tournaments, and eliminates alternatives by conducting “matches” between paired alternatives round-by-round. In this paper, to further improve the procedure’s performance in solving large-scale problems, we propose a major modification of the procedure. Specifically, in each round of the selection, before pairing the surviving alternatives and conducting the matches, we first choose an alternative as the reference alternative and then add the reference alternative to each match. We call the new procedure Procedure i-KT, where i-KT stands for “improved knockout-tournament”. We show that by carefully choosing the reference alternative and designing the pairing scheme for the remaining surviving alternatives in each round of the selection, Procedure i-KT can achieve significant improvements on both the average sample size required in each match and the total number of matches required during the entire selection process. In the meantime, we demonstrate that after the modifications, Procedure i-KT still fits parallel computing environments well. We compare Procedure i-KT with various procedures on different test examples and numerically justify our theoretical analysis.

Psychoacoustic ranking and selection using modified knockout tournaments.

This paper introduces a ranking and selection approach to psychoacoustic and psychophysical experimentation, with the aim of identifying top-ranking samples in listening experiments with minimal pairwise comparisons. We draw inspiration from sports tournament designs and propose to adopt modified knockout (KO) tournaments. Two variants of modified KO tournaments are described, which adapt the tree selection sorting algorithm and the replacement selection algorithm known from computer science. To validate the proposed method, a listening experiment is conducted, where binaural renderings of seven chamber music halls are compared regarding loudness and reverberance. The rankings obtained by the modified KO tournament method are compared to those obtained from a traditional round-robin (RR) design, where all possible pairs are compared. Moreover, the paper presents simulations to illustrate the method's robustness when choosing different parameters and assuming different underlying data distributions. The study's findings demonstrate that modified KO tournaments are more efficient than full RR designs in terms of the number of comparisons required for identifying the top ranking samples. Thus, they provide a promising alternative for this task. We offer an open-source implementation so that researchers can easily integrate KO designs into their studies.

An Analysis of the Potential of Philippine Sports as a Tool for Public Diplomacy

With the growing lapses of sports-based strategies in the Philippine setting, the gap between its theoretical foundation and its praxis has ballooned, predominantly attributed to the need for more academic work in this area. Correspondingly, this study provides implications for sports-related strategies for predicting a positive public image of the Philippines and harboring peaceful state cooperation through the merits of soft power. To achieve this, this paper has contrived the objectives, including (1) identifying the implications of hosting the SEA Games 2019 for the country by examining the management of the Philippine government, (2) determining the implications of the elite sporting success of Filipino athletes in sports tournaments, and, lastly, (3) identifying the potential of sports through the implementation of sports-related strategy by the Philippines. Moreover, this paper implements qualitative methods, including document review and key informant interviews, to gather pertinent testimonials from various sub-sectors in sports, including national elite athletes, professional coaches, and sports experts, to assess the state of Philippine sports and significantly determine its potential as a serious form of public diplomacy, particularly in achieving its intended outcomes. This study infers that Philippine sports have the capability to influence the country's stature with consideration of the global media as well as advance its foreign policy of international cooperation.

Design research experiment for convertibility architecture based on seasonal sport tournament

Sport is a part of the entertainment industry that is entirely in demand by the public. The relationship between fans as spectators and athletes in a sports match can’t be separated from the spatial role of architecture as space for interaction. The presence of architecture is not only as a supporting functional aspect in the form of sports arena buildings, but architecture also has a role to provide memorable experiences to users through interactions in sporting events or tournaments. In this research, the factors and principles that influence the quality of the sportscape consisting of functional and user aspects will be implemented into an architectural design. In the process to create a sportscape, the framework used is based on Concept-Based Framework with adaptable architecture as the design approach. The method applied are versatile and convertible which are two detailed parts of adaptable architecture that discuss the spatial changes of use and space. So, the result of the design can be presented in the form of sport facility with the application of spatial convertibility to accommodate several types of indoor sports that can be converted into several spatial form to provide a different atmosphere and experience in the same spatial space.

Axiomatic characterizations of the core and the Shapley value of the broadcasting game

AbstractWe study the cooperative game associated with a broadcasting problem (the allocation of revenues raised from the collective sale of broadcasting rights for a sports tournament). We show that the set of core allocations can be characterized with three axioms: additivity, null team and monotonicity. We also show that the Shapley value can be characterized with additivity, equal treatment of equals and core selection.

EXTRACURRICULAR SPORTS PARTICIPATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF VIETNAM

Extracurricular sports are voluntary learner-oriented sports implemented during non-class hours and suited for the student's interests, gender, age, and physical base. This paper was written to provide thorough information about the extracurricular sports engagement of 872 students from 11 high schools in the northern mountainous area of Vietnam. The researchers utilized statistical analysis and sociological surveys to collect such extensive quantitative data. Six criteria were also suggested to evaluate the circumstances. The findings show that the number of students who regularly participate in extracurricular sports accounts for 23.19%, of which males account for 23.92% and females 22.40%, and over 28% of them confirm that they love and are actively involved in playing sports after school. Moreover, all of the schools confirm that they do organize extracurricular sports for their students and most of them are conducted with the guidance of teachers. The most popular contents of extracurricular sports include shuttlecock kicking, football and badminton. In the 2022-2023 school year, there have been 18 intramural sports tournaments and 10 off-campus sports tournaments held with a total of 1392 students attending.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0707/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Sports as placemaking: critical reflections on a community-engaged campaign

ABSTRACT Community-engaged scholarship has largely neglected the potential of sports to construct progressive forms of community and mobilize disparate interests. In this article, we critically reflect on how sports were used for placemaking purposes in the Friendship and Hope Campaign, an annual event that is driven by residents of Thembelihle, a low-income community in South Africa. The Campaign is a participatory and community-based intervention that seeks to strengthen community relations and mobilize resources to build peaceful, nonracial, and nonsexist communities. Although the Campaign hosted several sports tournaments and cultural events, its attempt to strengthen community cohesion for the purposes of making democratically-led change renders it a political approach to placemaking. Yet, as with all community-engaged work, this was far from a simplistic process. The Campaign’s deployment of sports as a placemaking practice was complicated by a multitude of political interests that oftentimes contradicted the community-oriented values and aims of the Campaign. We reflect on how patronage politics can assist us in understanding such internal contestations and conflicting interests, and how community campaigns can work to move through and hold complexity in a democratic fashion, rather than attempt to settle such complexity altogether

Psychological stability and its relationship to administrative creativity among physical education teachers in Baghdad governorate schools


 The importance of research lies in the importance of the topic addressed by the fact that the topic of administrative creativity and psychological stability is one of the important topics that has received and continues to receive great attention from those interested in this field. The progress, development and continuity of schools in the field of sports depends mainly on the leaders who move them and draw their plans and policies and the behaviors of those leaders in developing their efficiency in administrative work.The objective of the research is to identify the relationship between psychological stability and administrative creativity of sports education teachers in the schools of Baghdad governorate. The sample of the research was chosen in a deliberate manner, namely, sports education teachers and the 460 managers of the middle schools in Baghdad, Several results were reached, The study sample has a very distinctive administrative creativity despite the psychological pressures, There is a relationship between psychological stability and administrative creativity in the research sample, Recommendations are Providing supplies for a physical education lesson, Establish more sports tournaments, Doing more training workshops.
 

Sports Tournament Design as a Source of Economic Impact (Through the Example of Russian Premier League)

In today's restricted environment, sport continues to face a lack of funding and to be perceived as an industry that can survive without support. Meanwhile, numerous studies have proven that sport is not about significant investments only, but also creates an economic impact. The aim of this work is to consider such a specific driver of economic impact as tournament design and evaluate the corresponding impact through the example of the Russian Premier League (RPL). The research hypothesis states that changing the design of the RPL tournament will lead to an increase in the total revenue of participating teams, in consumption in the host cities and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, which together will lay the foundation for an economic impact at the country level and for individual regions. The paper examines three reform scenarios, which differ in the assumptions made. The authors have developed a calculation model that quantifies the economic impact of these reforms. The main triggers are the attendance at RPL matches and its derivatives (the number of away fans, the distance traveled by away fans), as well as monetary metrics: ticket & travel costs, carbon unit costs. The impact is calculated as the difference between the results achieved in the current tournament design and in potential scenarios. The study showed that the current RPL design has significant potential for economic impact. Thus, the implementation of the Optimum scenario, which does not require additional calendar reserves, will create a positive economic impact in the amount of 479 million rubles. With additional calendar opportunities and implementing the “Maximum” scenario, the effect will be 932 million rubles. This study may be useful for managers of sports competitions, heads of regional and municipal authorities, as well as sports leagues and federations.

The Relationship Between Volunteering Motives And Wellness Among Volunteers Of Higher Education Institution Sports Tournament (Sukipt 2022)

The Relationship Between Volunteering Motives And Wellness Among Volunteers Of Higher Education Institution Sports Tournament (Sukipt 2022)

Medchir - A note from your president Jarrar Khan

Welcome to Glasgow Medical School!First of all, well done! Forget about thatbloody UCAT, those pesky past papersand all those silly interviews. Yousmashed it out of the park and now it’stime for you to work hard and play evenharder – and this is where we come in… MedChir has been kicking around since1802, making it one of the oldestsocieties in Scotland. Over those yearsMedChir has consistently hostededucational events, social events andmade sure nobody goes thirsty onThursdays.This year we’re kicking things off with aHoly Trinity of events to give you aproper Glaswegian welcome. First up isWelcome Night, for Freshers to get toknow each other over some free pints.This is being followed by our Ceilidh soyou can throw each other about, meetpeople in other years, and, if you’re notScottish and have no idea what a Ceilidhis, come along and find out. And finally,Medic Families – a night to meet yourmedic parents, grandparents, uncles andaunties and let them teach you the waysof MedChir.There are so many more events to lookforward to; getting dressed up for theincredible MedChir Ball or putting yourlab coats to good use for the infamousScrubby – a sub crawl like no other.There are plenty of events to keep youentertained and one that you ought toknow of is the Scottish and NorthernIrish Medics Sports Tournament – AKA SNIMS. Imagine collecting 1500 Medics in a cityin Scotland for a ‘sports day’ sandwichedbetween two nights out? Chaoticallyincredible right? Well, lucky you, becausethis year that city is Glasgow and it’s aweekend you would be sorry to miss. We have plenty of events planned thisyear. We want you to look back one daywhen you are a shit hot doctor andappreciate that some of the best years ofyour life weren’t just spent in the library!We can’t to meet you all in September,maybe in the Library – probably in BeerBar. Did I mention free pints?Jarrar Khan MedChir President 2023-2024

Stochastic analysis of the Elo rating algorithm in round-robin tournaments

The Elo algorithm, renowned for its simplicity, is widely used for rating in sports tournaments and other applications. However, despite its widespread use, a detailed understanding of the convergence characteristics of the Elo algorithm is still lacking. Aiming to fill this gap, this paper presents a comprehensive (stochastic) analysis of the Elo algorithm, considering round-robin tournaments. Specifically, analytical expressions are derived describing the evolution of the skills and performance metrics. Then, taking into account the relationship between the behavior of the algorithm and the step-size value, which is a hyperparameter that can be controlled, design guidelines and discussions about the performance of the algorithm are provided. Experimental results are shown confirming the accuracy of the analysis and illustrating the applicability of the theoretical findings using real-world data obtained from SuperLega, the Italian volleyball league.

Event-based entrepreneurship

Many entrepreneurial opportunities are associated with events, including sports competitions, races and tournaments, concerts and music festivals, and conferences and exhibitions, yet this variant of entrepreneurship has not been specifically accounted for in the literature. We integrate insights from entrepreneurship research with research on temporary organizational forms, stakeholder theory, and platform strategy to define Event-Based Entrepreneurship (EBE) and propose factors that account for the founding and scaling of event-based ventures. In so doing, we lay the conceptual foundations and offer theoretical and practical directions for an expanded research agenda on EBE.

A Mathematical Connection Between Single-Elimination Sports Tournaments and Evolutionary Trees

Summary How many ways are there to arrange the sequence of games in a single-elimination sports tournament? We consider the connection between this enumeration problem and the enumeration of “labeled histories,” or sequences of asynchronous branching events, in mathematical phylogenetics. The possibility of playing multiple games simultaneously in different arenas suggests an extension of the enumeration of labeled histories to scenarios in which multiple branching events occur simultaneously. We provide a recursive result enumerating game sequences and labeled histories in which simultaneity is allowed. For a March Madness basketball tournament of 68 labeled teams, the number of possible sequences of games is ∼ 1.91 × 10 78 if arbitrarily many arenas are available, but only ∼ 3.60 × 10 68 if all games must be played sequentially in the same arena.

ROLE OF CHESS ACHIEVEMENTS IN A PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILD’S LEARNING PROCESS

The aim of the article is to identify the role of chess achievement in the learning process and in enhancing learning motivation. The research was conducted using a complex set of quantitative and qualitative methods. The research was carried out by methods of a structured questionnaire survey (122) and an expert interview (15).Success in chess motivates a child to study mainly mathematics, native and foreign languages, while the other subjects are somewhat outside the scope of children's interests. Due to victories, learners strive to be the first in their studies, in sports and in all activities. The impact of chess is a positive shift in academic achievement and a change in aspirations for learning subjects.Comparing the results of the study conducted with parents and experts, it becomes clear that both parents and experts stress the role and impact of chess education on a child's academic performance, highlighting the role of sports victories as a tool to stimulate and enhance educational motivation. Frequent victories in sports tournaments are an encouraging factor for pupils to achieve educational success through participation in a number of subject, Olympiads increasing a child's desire to be involved in educational process.

Management of Sports Tournaments with The Support of Information and Communication Technologies

Management of Sports Tournaments with The Support of Information and Communication Technologies

Retracted: Mining and Prediction of Large Sport Tournament Data Based on Bayesian Network Models for Online Data

Retracted: Mining and Prediction of Large Sport Tournament Data Based on Bayesian Network Models for Online Data

أسباب عزوف طلبة كلية التربية الرياضية بجامعة البحرين عن ممارسة التحكيم في المسابقات الرياضية في مملكة البحرين

This study aimed to identify the reasons for the reluctance of students of the Faculty of Physical Education at the University of Bahrain to practice arbitration in sports competitions in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The researcher used the descriptive approach in its survey form and chose the study sample in a random way. The study sample consisted of (144) male and female students from the College of Physical Education. The questionnaire was used as a data collection tool, as the questionnaire included four axes regarding the reasons for abstinence (psychological, social, economic, and academic). The results showed that the most severe reasons for the reluctance of the College of Physical Education at the University of Bahrain to practice sports arbitration were represented in the axis. The psychological field ranked first, then the economic field, then the academic field, and finally came the social field and all were with a medium degree. There were statistically significant differences (α ≤ 0.05) due to the effect of gender in all axes except for the psychological field, and the differences came in favor of males. The study recommended: Working on holding lectures, seminars, and courses to guide male and female students and encouraging them towards refereeing sports tournaments and competitions. As well as working to form a joint internal committee between the College of Physical Education, University of Bahrain and the sports federations to benefit from and develop new referees. هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على أسباب عزوف طلبة كلية التربية الرياضية بجامعة البحرين عن ممارسة التحكيم في المسابقات الرياضية في مملكة البحرين. واستخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي بصورته المسحية، واختار عينة الدراسة بالطريقة العشوائية وتألفت عينة الدراسة من (144) طالباً وطالبة من كلية التربية الرياضية، واستخدم الاستبيان كأداة لجمع البيانات حيث تضمن الاستبيان بالنسبة لأسباب العزوف أربعة محاور هي (النفسي، الاجتماعي، الاقتصادي، الأكاديمي). وقد أسفرت نتائج الدراسة عن الآتي: أن أكثر الأسباب حدة لعزوف كلية التربية الرياضية بجامعة البحرين عن ممارسة تحكيم المسابقات الرياضية في المرتبة الأولى المجال النفسي، ثم المجال الاقتصادي، ثم المجال الأكاديمي، ثم المجال الاجتماعي، حيث كانت جميع المجالات بدرجة متوسطة، وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية (0.05 ≥α) تعزى لأثر النوع الاجتماعي في جميع المحاور باستثناء المجال النفسي، وجاءت الفروق لصالح الذكور، وأوصت الدراسة على العمل على إقامة المحاضرات والندوات والدورات لتوجيه الطلبة وتشجيعهم نحو تحكيم البطولات والمسابقات الرياضية، العمل على تشكيل لجنة داخلية مشتركة بين كلية التربية الرياضية جامعة البحرين واتحادات الألعاب الرياضية للاستفادة من الحكام المستجدين وتطويرهم.

A tutorial on graph models for scheduling round‐robin sports tournaments

AbstractMany sports leagues organize their competitions as round‐robin tournaments. This tournament design has a rich mathematical structure that has been studied in the literature over the years. We review some of the main properties and fundamental scheduling methods of round‐robin tournaments. Special attention is given to extra‐mural tournaments in which each team in the competition has its venue. Teams play either at home or away in such tournaments in each round. The surge of breaks in the perfect alternation of home and away breaks is studied in detail.

Sport organisations’ contribution to migrants’ social inclusion in Italy: a sociological insight

The extensive involvement of Italian sport organisations in delivering various social and humanitarian services and activities to migrants, along with the peculiarity of the country, offered the ground to the conceptualisation of this paper. This study aims to discuss the contributions of sport to migrants’ social inclusion through a review of the pertinent literature and the use of a Qualitative Document Analysis (QDA) to examine a group of projects and interventions carried out in Italy. In Italy, the third sector, and in particular, sport for all organisations, develop several initiatives to respond to the heterogeneous needs of the migrants, including educational and communication campaigns, research activities and direct participation of migrants in sport events and tournaments. Our study highlights the importance of overcoming the lack of homogeneity in those projects and interventions with common and shared strategies, and the importance of educating and training coaches and other professionals for working in these contexts. The findings also led us to propose a conceptual framework with the critical areas of intervention for research and sport-based projects: social inclusion, settlement, positive development and social capital.