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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2017.35
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-81605
URL: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/8160/
Schneider, Jon ;
Schvartzman, Ariel ;
Weinberg, S. Matthew
Condorcet-Consistent and Approximately Strategyproof Tournament Rules
Abstract
We consider the manipulability of tournament rules for round-robin tournaments of n competitors. Specifically, n competitors are competing for a prize, and a tournament rule r maps the result of all n(n-1)/2 pairwise matches (called a tournament, T) to a distribution over winners. Rule r is Condorcet-consistent if whenever i wins all n-1 of her matches, r selects i with probability 1.
We consider strategic manipulation of tournaments where player j might throw their match to player i in order to increase the likelihood that one of them wins the tournament. Regardless of the reason why j chooses to do this, the potential for manipulation exists as long as Pr[r(T) = i] increases by more than Pr[r(T) = j] decreases. Unfortunately, it is known that every Condorcet-consistent rule is manipulable. In this work, we address the question of how manipulable Condorcet-consistent rules must necessarily be - by trying to minimize the difference between the increase in Pr[r(T) = i] and decrease in Pr[r(T) = j] for any potential manipulating pair.
We show that every Condorcet-consistent rule is in fact 1/3-manipulable, and that selecting a winner according to a random single elimination bracket is not alpha-manipulable for any alpha > 1/3. We also show that many previously studied tournament formats are all 1/2-manipulable, and the popular class of Copeland rules (any rule that selects a player with the most wins) are all in fact 1-manipulable, the worst possible. Finally, we consider extensions to match-fixing among sets of more than two players.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{schneider_et_al:LIPIcs:2017:8160,
author = {Jon Schneider and Ariel Schvartzman and S. Matthew Weinberg},
title = {{Condorcet-Consistent and Approximately Strategyproof Tournament Rules}},
booktitle = {8th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2017)},
pages = {35:1--35:20},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-029-3},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2017},
volume = {67},
editor = {Christos H. Papadimitriou},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/8160},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-81605},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2017.35},
annote = {Keywords: Tournament design, Non-manipulability, Condorcet-consistent, Strategyproofness}
}
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Tournament design, Non-manipulability, Condorcet-consistent, Strategyproofness |
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8th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2017) |
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2017 |
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28.11.2017 |
