[email protected] wrote:
If we measure defeat strength of A over B, primarily by whether or not A covers B, and secondarily by
the number of winning votes, we get new versions of Ranked Pairs, River, and Beatpath. These new
versions retain all of the best properties of their winning votes versions, while always electing uncovered
alternatives.
This trick will work on any method that simply compares different beat
strengths without taking the score directly into account. You can define
a greater-than operator as
"If A covers B, then A is greater than B.
Otherwise, A is greater than B if the wv (margins, whatever) of A is
greater than B".
So you could in theory do this with Minmax too, but not with Least
Reversal or Kemeny.
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