González-Díaz, Julio; Hendrickx, Ruud; Lohmann, Edwin - In: Social Choice and Welfare 42 (2014) 1, pp. 139-169
In this paper we present an axiomatic analysis of several ranking methods for general tournaments. We find that the ranking method obtained by applying maximum likelihood to the (Zermelo-)Bradley-Terry model, the most common method in statistics and psychology, is one of the ranking methods that...