Physicist Examines Tournament Statistics in Phys. Let.

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You'll find a non technical description of the results of the paper at

http://www.lpt.ups-tlse.fr/article.php3?id_article=237

This work describes the global dynamics of a tournament, and does not try to address individual behavior/best strategy. The main results concern the distribution of the stacks at a given time in the tournament, and the properties of the chip leader (total number of chip leaders in a tournament, distribution of their stack).