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Picked to Win, Played to Park

A Taxonomy of Workarounds to an Office Footy-Tipping Competition's Score-Linked Car-Space Perk

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement develops a five-category taxonomy of workaround tactics in office footy-tipping competitions, finding a substantially higher tactic-coded rate once a competition ties its confidence-weighted leaderboard to a real reward --- a reserved car space --- than in comparison competitions with no attached reward, a gap a retrospective re-scoring ablation traces to the perk's attachment rather than to the scoring formula itself.

AuthorsCasimir Beng, Renke Sabel, Marit Osayande
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
FundingIndicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Succession Planning for the Lab's Reference Calibration Weights ($47,285)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.cm2xn5
Pages5
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_cm2xn5,
  author       = {Casimir Beng and Renke Sabel and Marit Osayande},
  title        = {Picked to Win, Played to Park: A Taxonomy of Workarounds to an Office Footy-Tipping Competition's Score-Linked Car-Space Perk},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cm2xn5},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-cataloguing-how-office-cm2xn5/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}