Assume a ranking system where each gives a rank to all competing teams from highest to lowest. The final ranking is decided on the basis of the number of first-place votes they receive. If there’s a tie for first place, the second-place votes are used to break the tie; if there’s still a tie, the third-place votes are considered, and this continues until all positions have been evaluated. If teams remain tied after all positions have been reviewed, they are ranked alphabetically by their team names.
Given an array of strings votes that represents the rankings given by all voters, sort the teams according to the specified ranking system and return a string that lists all the teams in the ranked order.
Constraints:
votes.length
votes[i].length
votes[i].length == votes[j].length for i, j votes.length
votes[i][j] is an uppercase English letter.
All characters of votes[i] are unique.
All characters present in votes[0] are also found in votes[i] where i votes.length.
The key intuition for solving this problem is to efficiently keep track of the vote counts each team receives for each position. We create a 2D array for this purpose, where the rows represent the teams and the columns represent the vote counts for each position. For ...
Assume a ranking system where each gives a rank to all competing teams from highest to lowest. The final ranking is decided on the basis of the number of first-place votes they receive. If there’s a tie for first place, the second-place votes are used to break the tie; if there’s still a tie, the third-place votes are considered, and this continues until all positions have been evaluated. If teams remain tied after all positions have been reviewed, they are ranked alphabetically by their team names.
Given an array of strings votes that represents the rankings given by all voters, sort the teams according to the specified ranking system and return a string that lists all the teams in the ranked order.
Constraints:
votes.length
votes[i].length
votes[i].length == votes[j].length for i, j votes.length
votes[i][j] is an uppercase English letter.
All characters of votes[i] are unique.
All characters present in votes[0] are also found in votes[i] where i votes.length.
The key intuition for solving this problem is to efficiently keep track of the vote counts each team receives for each position. We create a 2D array for this purpose, where the rows represent the teams and the columns represent the vote counts for each position. For ...