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Tournament-Based Performance Evaluation and Systematic Misallocation: Why Forced Ranking Systems Produce Random Outcomes

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  • 1. Cage & Mirror Press

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Agent-based simulation demonstrating that forced ranking produces 32% classification error under random team assignment, rising to 53% under realistic conditions. Cross-team calibration transforms evaluation into influence contests.

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Paper 18 of 22 in the Structural Compression Theory research program by Jeremy McEntire.

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arXiv:2512.06583 (arXiv)