[EM] Sports and 'The Condorcet Mindset'

[Bart Ingles]

Actually I have long thought that the situation with boxing in the 70's
was like a Condorcet cycle (or like the rock-paper-scissors game), where
Frazier defeated Ali, who defeated Foreman, who defeated Frazier.  

Bart


Alex Small wrote:
> 
> My description of boxing probably shows my ignorance:
> 
> > Condorcet is more like boxing, where a person only keeps the title by
> > being undefeated (cycles are deadlocks where NO person is undefeated).
> 
> Let's just say that the existence of cycles is why my analogy is
> imperfect, but most analogies are somewhat imperfect anyway.

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