The SportsPlayoff02.lng Model

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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; 

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LINGO | Baseball | Pennant | Playoff | Robinson | Sports |