| Article ID: | iaor20061478 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 164 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 778 |
| End Page Number: | 784 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Monsuur Herman |
| Keywords: | sports |
Measures of inconsistency or difference between a set of pairwise comparisons and the final ranking of alternatives, give valuable and useful information. In this paper, we present characterizations of two such measures, the 3-cycle count and the backward length. The characterizations provide insight into what exactly is measured and how measures differ in processing adjustments in a tournament.