Esports & Gaming · Quantitative#178

Bracket-Path & Group-Draw Model

Tournament winner markets frequently ignore the bracket: a strong team that must beat two other elite squads before the final is meaningfully less likely to win than an equally strong team on the soft side of the draw. You simulate the full bracket from seeding rules and per-matchup win rates, producing a title probability for every entrant, and trade the outright markets where the crowd priced team strength without pricing the path.

What you need to run it

Bracket structure and seeding rules for the specific tournament format
Head-to-head matchup model feeding a full-tournament Monte Carlo simulation
Re-simulation after every round, since upsets reshape everyone's path

Where this applies

Markets on Polymarket where bracket-path & group-draw model is the natural play:

Will T1 win the next League of Legends World Championship?
Will Team Spirit win The International?
Will a European team win the next CS2 Major?

Capabilities this demands

Model / quantCustom code / APIDomain knowledge

At a glance

CategoryQuantitative

MarketEsports & Gaming

Requirements3

CapabilitiesModel / quant, Custom code / API, Domain knowledge

VenuePolymarket (CLOB, Polygon)

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