Hendrickx, Ruud; Gonzalez-Diaz, J.; Lohmann, E.R.M.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
In this paper we present an axiomatic analysis of several ranking methods for tournaments. We find that two of them … ranking, the most common method in statistics and psychology. The other one is a new ranking method introduced in this paper …: recursive Buchholz. One of the most widely studied methods in social choice, the fair bets ranking, also performs quite well …