Goals, Constraints, and Transparently Fair Assignments: A Field Study of Randomization Design in the UEFA Champions League

For helpful comments and feedback, the authors thank Eric Budish, Yeon-Koo Che, Dries Gossenns, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, Fuhito Kojima, Laszló Csátó, Jean-François Richard, M. Utku Ünver, Leeat Yariv, and the participants of the Conference on Economic Design of the Society for Economic Design and the International Conference on the Economics of Football. Moreover, the authors are very grateful to the three anonymous referees for their insightful comments and helpful suggestions.