“Fairness in Sports” workshop
June 11
Fairness in sport is not just about assigning the top prizes to the worthiest competitors. It is also about the way the competition itself is organized. How to design rules that do not favor certain competitors? How to design a schedule of play that a priori offers similar chances to each participant? How to reconcile various (often conflicting) requests expressed by the stakeholders? It seems that as financial interests in sports increase, fairness is increasingly under pressure, and research on fairness issues in sports is becoming more and more relevant.
The workshop focusses on scientific methods to achieve greater fairness in sports, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. Topics will include i.a. tournament scheduling and rule design.
The workshop will be a 1-day event, which will take place on June 11th 2024, and is hosted at Ghent University in Belgium.
It continues a tradition that began in Ghent in 2018 and was followed by an engaging session in London the same year.
Registration is required, but free (deadline: May 21st). While the workshop will not feature an open call for papers or talks, we highly encourage interested speakers with significant contributions to the theme of fairness in sports to get in touch by sending an email to [email protected]
For more information, please visit our website at https://www.sportscheduling.ugent.be/FairnessInSports