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potential swiss rules modification

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Thursday, 2 April 2015, at 5:31 p.m.

In Response To: potential swiss rules modification (Steve Mellen)

This sounds like question that might be answered reasonably well with a simulation. Maybe something like this:

Define the "effectiveness" of a tournament as: the average rating of the champion it produces. So a "more effective" format (or set of rules) produces a stronger champion on average than a less effective one.

How is tournament effectiveness affected by the value of compensation given for byes? Or does it make any difference? (Presumably, a goal of backgammon tournaments is to maximize effectiveness.)

Does is matter if the tournament uses a hard cutoff (e.g., you're out after 3 losses) or a percentage cutoff (e.g., the bottom 25% drop out each round)?

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