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Winning Isn’t Everything: How Sports Competition Rules Can Make You Want to Lose

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Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. (Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach)

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Pauly, M. Winning Isn’t Everything: How Sports Competition Rules Can Make You Want to Lose. Math Intelligencer 37, 66–70 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9510-0

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