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The relative merits of teams involved in a competition can be expressed by a partial ordering on the teams. The result of a round of the competition can be expressed by a multiplication of partial orderings, satisfying certain axioms. Several possible multiplications are described, and some properties of these multiplications displayed.
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Clarke, R.J. (1983). Modelling competitions by poset multiplication. In: Casse, L.R.A. (eds) Combinatorial Mathematics X. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1036. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0071514
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