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Why all the mathematicians favor VRR/MWC tournaments over PR tournaments

Posted By: Mochy
Date: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, at 6:17 p.m.

In Response To: Why all the mathematicians favor VRR/MWC tournaments over PR tournaments (Timothy Chow)

There are a lot of ways that a player can get "lucky" in a PR tournament as well. As I mentioned in another post, if my opponent dances a long time and I have a lot of easy, but not quite trivial (as judged by XG), decisions while moving my checkers around the board, then this will help my PR a lot just because my errors will be divided by a much larger denominator.

Let me put it in this way.

There is a 1600 player and a 1900 player. They play 100 sets of 25p matches to win by the score (usual tournament style). Which format rewards 1900 more? I believe PR does better. Maybe some one could check their stats against same opponent to see if my statement is right.

You can find a weakeness in both format, but I simply think the weakness in VRR/EMC is bigger.

Is it really more important to you to play like a bot than to play to win?
I will just try to find a best way in a given format.

If people can enjoy the format, what is the problem? I agree that people got used to talk about PR and not MWC/VRR so that they like PR format. However, isn't it a valid reason? This is just a game and popularity is an important thing.

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