Hallo, the Young method calculates for each candidate A the minimum number of ballots that have to be removed so that candidate A doesn't lose any of its pairwise comparisons. The Young method chooses that candidate for whom this number is the smallest.
Also the Young method satisfies mono-add-top, mono-remove-bottom, and Condorcet. Markus Schulze ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info