Some aspects of ordering, ranking and seeding 2

Abstract

This is the second of two papers on ordering, ranking and seeding players and teams in sport. Such orderings may be used for player selection, seeding, handicapping, player progress evaluation and for predicting match and tournament outcomes. KAN-Soft data for eight of the top male tennis players is used in a simulation study to explore various ranking systems. These ranking systems rely on historical relative frequencies for pairwise performance in the context of two scoring systems and three tournament structures. Of special interest is the sensitivity of the rankings to individual cases