Tournament Model Containing League Matches And Rounds As we have come across many sets In the History of CAT...

Tournament Model Sets Play A Vital Role...You to bear a few Strategies to Crack these kind of Questions in the Exam... Concept Let The Number of Teams Be 'n' And Each team Plays with Each other..Much of Like IPL and EPL...Then The Number of Matches Which Are to Be Played Are: nC2...For Example There Are 8 Teams..Then The Number of Matches = 8C2 = 28

Number of wins necessary for a team to ensure its place in next round is: +1..For Example..There Are 8 teams playing...So the Number of wins necessary for a team to ensure its place in next round is Greatest Integer Function(root(8c2)) + 1 = 5+1 = 6

If there is Football/Hockey tournament going on..And Partial Data is provided...(Remember A Hockey Set in CAT 2004)...Always Look For Key Facts: Number Of Wins = Number Of Losses Sum Of Draws In A Tournament Will Always Be An Even Number Sigma(GF - GA) = sigma(GD) = 0...Always If point system like...2 for win,1 for tie to each, 0 for loss is given...Always look out for Total Number Of Points Awarded In A Tournament...Because Number of Points Awarded In A Match will always be 2..(One Team would Win and Other Will Lose or Both of them Would Have A Draw)...Total Points Awarded In a Match would be = Number Of Matches * Total Points Given Per Match If a variable data is given like...3 for win..And 1 each for draw...Use Equations..Here We Know that..Points Awarded In A match when it results in A win/loss = 3..And Points Awarded In A match ending in A draw = 2....Then Use Equations..Let x matches ended In Draw, and y match had definite result(either win/loss)..Then...2x+3y = Total Points Awarded...And x+y = Total Number Matches...From here..It would be Easy to find which of the matches Ended in A draw or definite result. Consider A Score Line of this Type: Team_____GF____GA___GD___ India_______ 4______4_____0____ Pakistan____ 4______5_____-1___ Australia____ -______-_____-1___ Spain_______6______4______2___ England_____ -______3_____2____ Brazil_______ -______6_____-____

In here..We don't know GF by Australia, England, Brazil...GA by Australia...GD of Brazil..... But We Know that....Summation of All Goal Difference = 0 So...GD for Brazil = Let say x x+0+(-1)+(-1)+2+2 = 0 So x = -2 Which Gives GF = 4 by Brazil... Some Cents On Cricket Sets Too Cricket Sets Like Football/Hockey Sets Are Similar. Instead of GF,GD,GA...we have Net Run Rate...Which is Calculated by X-Y Where X = Total Runs Scored By A Team Till That Match/Total Numbers of Overs Played And Y = Total Runs Scored Against That Team till that Match/Total Number Of Overs Played By All the Opponents In Simple Words... Let there Be 3 teams..India, Pakistan, Australia... Match 1 = India(301-6 in 50 overs) beat Pakistan(256-10 in 45 overs) by 45 runs Match 2 = India(245-7 in 42 overs) beat Australia(241-5 in 50 Overs) by 3 wickets Match 3 = Australia(276-10 in 48 Overs) beat Pakistan(250-5 in 50 Overs) by 26 runs Here Runs Scored By India = 546 in 92 overs Runs Scored Against India = 497 in 95 overs So NRR = 546/92 - 497/95 = +0.7(approx) Similarly We can calculate NRR for Australia As Well As Pakistan ...Which Comes out to be -0.11 and -0.58 respectively.....Here Also We can See that Roughly Summation of NRR of All teams = 0 Problems Consider A tournament having 4 teams A,B,C,D...The Table given below Shows the proceedings of the tournament. The Table shows NRR of the team after that match.... Team_____First Match_____Second Match____Third Match A__________+0.8____________A2_____________+0.6____ B__________B1______________-0.4___________+0.066__ C__________+1______________+0.25__________C3_____ D__________D1______________-0.5____________D3____ A team Plays its second match, once every team has played its first match..Similarly, it plays

3rd match only after every team has played its 2nd match. If A team was allout within the stipulated 50 overs, it was deemed to have batted 50 overs. All matches ended in a victory..except 1..which was a tie...In these victories, all the teams that batted first were the winners in all the matches except one which happened to be the last match played by C. Q1. Which Teams were Involved In a tie ? 1. A and D 2. A and B 3. B and D 4. CBD Q2. What is Value of A2 ? 1. +1.3 2. +1.05 3. +0.65 4. +0.525 Q3. By how many runs A won the match against C 1. 50 2. 90 3. 45 4. 25

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There are 16 teams and they are divided into 2 pools of 8 each. Each team in a group plays against one another on a round-robin basis. Draws in the competition are not allowed. The top four teams from each group will qualify for the next round i.e round 2. In case of teams having the same number of wins, the team with better run-rate would be ranked ahead. 1. Minimum number of wins required to qualify for the next round _____? 2. Minimum number of wins required to guarantee qualification in the next round _____? Now, i don't know how many of you are aware of the following method. But 1 thing I mention in advance that this should take only 30 seconds to solve 1. 1 group is consisting of 8 teams. So each team will play 7 match each. Suppose each of the 8 teams were seeded and we consider the case where a higher seeded team will always win. So the number of wins for the 8 teams would be 7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 with highest seeded team winning all and lowest seeded team losing all. For minimum number of wins we allow 3 teams to win maximum number of matches. Of the remaining 5 teams just find out the mean of their number of wins. In this case it would be (4+3+2+1+0)/5=2. So 5 teams can end up with 2 wins each and a team with better run rate will qualify with 2 wins. 2. In this case consider the mean of first 5 higher seeded teams (7+6+5+4+3)/5=5 So it may be the case that 5 teams can end up having 5 wins each. And hence 1 team will miss the second round birth. So minimum number of wins to guarantee a place would be 6. So guys whenever a similar questions appears you should not be taking more than 30 seconds.