How to Conclude a Suspended Sports League?

The authors thank the department editors who handled this manuscript, Hau Lee and Melvyn Sim, along with the anonymous associate editors and referees whose insightful comments significantly improved the manuscript. The authors also extend their thanks to those who offered valuable feedback at INFORMS 2020, INFORMS 2021, Association of European Operational Research Societies 2022, EUROYoung Workshop 2022, and the Southern California Operations Research/Operations Management Day 2023 as well as during seminars at the University of California, Irvine (Merage); the Sports Training and Research in Data Science Methods for Analytics and Injury Prevention Group; the University of Manchester (Alliance Manchester Business School); Lancaster University; the University of Nottingham; the University of Iowa; the University of Melbourne (ARC Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications); Aarhus University; Institut d’Économie Scientifique et de Gestion School of Management; the University of Zurich; and Emory University.