Predicting future sports rankings from evolving performance

(Springer) Competitive sports and games are all about the performance of players and teams, which results in performance-based hierarchies. Because such performance is measurable and is the result of varied rules, sports and games are considered a suitable model to help understand unrelated social or economic systems characterized by similar rules-based complexity. These findings, published in EPJ Data Science, enhance our ability to forecast how stratification occurs in competitive activities.