[EM] MinMax variant

Forest Simmons fsimmons at pcc.edu
Fri Mar 14 17:45:02 PST 2003


corrections:

"one" changed to "TWO", "two" changed to "THREE" in the last sentence
below:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Forest Simmons wrote:

> I had a simpler example in mind:
>
> Three teams in a round robin tournament compile the following scores:
>
> A beats B four to three, B beats C two to one, and A beats C two to one.
>
> A is the Condorcet winner while C is not only the Condorcet loser, but
> also the method winner under this variant of MinMax, since this team never
> gave up more than TWO points per game, while each of the other teams had
> at
> least THREE points scored against it in one game or another.




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