• A paper co-authored by two members of the research group entitled An experimental approach: Converting verbal expressions to numerical scales appeared in Operations Research Perspectives on 1 September 2026.

• A paper authored by two members of the research group entitled Refined thresholds for inconsistency: The effect of the graph associated with incomplete pairwise comparisons appeared in Expert Systems with Applications on 19 May 2026.

• We have organised the 4th Fairness in Sports workshop on 12 June 2026 at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

Ranking is a fundamental issue in many fields of science: rankings are used to represent both individual and collective preferences, allocate financial and other resources, or support potentially life-changing decisions.

We are focusing on two specific fields where rankings play a prominent role: pairwise comparison matrices and sports tournaments.

The goal of the project is to demonstrate that the axiomatic analysis of ranking systems can offer new and important insight into both decision-making methods and sports rules.