[EM] Ranked Pairs tiebreaker scheme

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Sat Apr 2 10:04:44 PST 2005


Eric,

--- Eric Gorr <eric at ericgorr.net> wrote:
> > Else (when B is D, or B and D tie pairwise) rank A>B ahead of C>D if A
> > defeats C pairwise, and C>D ahead of A>B if C defeats A pairwise."
> 
> Looks interesting.
> 
> What would you do if neither A nor C defeat the other pairwise?

Maybe throw a division-by-zero.

Steve Eppley seemed to think that it would be alright in a public election
to take the defeats randomly.

Hmm, couldn't you use the Schulze ranking to break these ties?

Kevin Venzke



	

	
		
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