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The meaninglessness of backgammon results

Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer
Date: Thursday, 28 June 2012, at 12:57 a.m.

In Response To: The meaninglessness of backgammon results (Timothy Chow)

Tim, I think you're missing something on the time-perspective here... Not that it necessarily change your conclusion, just thought it should be mentioned:

First of all, when making a cup-tournament (single knockout) more "result-to-time efficient", best of x matches is not as good an improvement as simply going for longer matches.

Then, Swiss is not as time-efficient as single-knockout. You have to wait for all matches to complete before you can calculate the next round pairings, then announce match-ups, etc. In a single knockout format, people can play when they're ready, you know match-ups, etc.

Finally, you will need a few more rounds in a Swiss tournament than just the minimum number required (had it been a single knockout). Depending on your tiebreak system (points adjustment, eg. Monrad system), having just a single or two rounds extra, will not yield much different results, since an early loss will give you less valuable match-ups, thus making you loose most tiebreak calculations later on should you go on to tie for the win...

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