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It was really bye - forfeit - forfeit.

Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer
Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2014, at 9:07 p.m.

In Response To: It was really bye - forfeit - forfeit. (Bill Riles)

OK, then my first post was right.

"The distribution of byes was fine". Well... You mean correct according to the bye distribution model decided upon?

Say you have 12 players (=4 matches and 4 byes in the first round).

The distribution used would give you:

Player_1
-bye

Player_2
-bye

Player_3
-bye

Player_4
-bye

Player_5
Player_6

Player_7
Player_8

Player_9
Player_10

Player_11
Player_12

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If you used this distribution instead:

Player_1
-bye

Player_2
Player_3

Player_4
Player_5

Player_6
-bye

Player_7
-bye

Player_8
Player_9

Player_10
Player_11

Player_12
-bye

, you would never get a bye and two walkovers if 3 players forfeit... You would need 5 forfeits for that to happen!

In fact, with the first distribution, one forfeit could result in bye+WO, that's not possible with the second distribution (for this number of players).

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So, you could consider going to the "distributed bye" model, instead of using "perfectly skewed bye" model, if you have many forfeits and you prefer limiting the impact of these. If also balances the strength of each half (or quarter) of the draw better.

The drawback of course, is that players receiving byes will have to wait for their 2nd round opponent. (they can play some sideaction, and be happy that they now are not going to wait the same amount of time later during the tournament)...

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