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Just a Thought

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Friday, 17 May 2013, at 7:31 a.m.

In Response To: Just a Thought (Chiva Tafazzoli)

top players will get their sit-out in early rounds (where it doesn´t really count)

It's not true that a bye "really doesn't count" in early rounds.

I think further that it's simply wrong to be thinking in terms of being "fair" in awarding byes or thinking that a player can earn a bye by winning. A bye is a mar in your pairings, necessary only because you don't have an even number of players in a round. When you have an odd number of players, you don't, I believe, really want the bye to affect your tournament, so it's best to "award" the bye where it's least likely to do that, that is, by giving it to the player with the worst record in the tournament.

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