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Check whether a sports team can end the season with more wins than any other team, and thus win the pennant ; We maximize Z = excess wins of team Kchk over every other team. If we solve this model as an LP and Z <= 0, then clearly team Kchk cannot win the pennant outright; Ref: Robinson, L. (1991), "Baseball playoff eliminations: An application of linear programming," Operations Research Letters, North Holland, vol 10, pp. 67-74; Wayne, K,(2001), "A New Property and a Faster Algorithm for Baseball Elimination," SIAM J. Discrete Math., vol 14 no 2, pp 223-229;