Hi, just a quickie.<div><br></div><div>I wonder if you have discussed Condorcet tie-breaking using sport scoring, like in football (soccer)?</div><div>Football scoring obviously rests on the assumption, that only the best candidates from lower "leagues" (like regional or primary elections) can candidate for elections, as candidate cloning is an issue here.</div>
<div>The candidates in the top league could also be decided by using proportional election methods (say 8 candidates elected by STV).</div><div>If a candidate beats all other candidates, i.e is the Condorcet winner, then he/she wins, just like in football and most other sports leagues.</div>
<div>Thus sports scoring is a Condorcet method and could be mentioned on Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method</a></div><div><br></div><div>Election description:</div>
<div>Each pairwise win gives two (or alternatively three) points.</div><div>Each tie gives one point.</div><div>Each loss gives zero points.</div><div>In case several candidates get the same number of points, then the internal wins decide.</div>
<div>If all candidates have the same number of internal wins (in the case of three candidates with same number of points for instance), </div><div>then the margins of the number of votes for decide.</div><div>If the margins are the same then the quota of the total votes for and against the candidate decide.</div>
<div>If the quoat is the same, then the winner is the one who had a worse placement in the lower league.</div><div>If the placements in the lower league were the same, then the seniority of the candidates decide.</div><div>
<br></div><div>This method is not very useful maybe (I guess it fails a lot of criteria), but it is fun and could draw new crowds to the area of election methods.</div><div><br></div><div>An alternative question for further research :o), is how a football league would look like, if they used Schulze Condorcet.</div>
<div>How would the premier league, NBA or your favourite sports league look like if Shulze ranking (or some other Condorcet ranking) was used?</div><div>Would the football world cup group plays look different with Condorcet ranking?</div>
<div><br></div><div>A whole world of new oportunities for the application of election methods opens up :o)</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Peter Zbornik</div><div><br></div>