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On the distribution of winners' scores in a round-robin tournament

13 January 2022
Yaakov Malinovsky
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Abstract

In a classical chess round-robin tournament, each of nnn players wins, draws, or loses a game against each of the other n−1n-1n−1 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 nnn players after (n2){\displaystyle {n \choose 2}}(2n​) games, i.e. the distribution of the maximal score, second maximum, and so on. The exact distribution for a general nnn seems impossible to obtain; we obtain a limit distribution.

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