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Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?

Posted By: sebalotek
Date: Thursday, 7 April 2016, at 3:57 p.m.

In Response To: Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments? (garyo)

OK.. when a knife fight is the last solution offered, maybe that indicates that there is no general consensus on tiebreakers!

Anyway, thanks to those that contributed. FWIW I'll offer my own suggestions:

Each group could be doubled in size - from 9 to 18 participants each. I think this would make differences of results more granular and help avoid collisions of score.

Of course, this would also have the side-effect of each round-robin group taking much longer to complete :( but probably less tie-breakers :)

Alternatively, I prefer some derivation of the Buchholz system (the sum of the scores of each of the opponents of a player decides i.e. if you beat harder opponents, rather than easier opponents, you get ranked higher). I believe this is something like the system used by FIBSleague - it works very well.

Messages In This Thread

• Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
  sebalotek -- Sunday, 3 April 2016, at 2:58 p.m.
  • Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
    Casper Van der Tak -- Sunday, 3 April 2016, at 3:05 p.m.
    • Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
      phil simborg -- Sunday, 3 April 2016, at 4:03 p.m.
      • Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
        niuniuch -- Sunday, 3 April 2016, at 4:48 p.m.
        • Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
          phil simborg -- Monday, 4 April 2016, at 2:35 a.m.
          • Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
            garyo -- Monday, 4 April 2016, at 7:02 a.m.
            • Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
              sebalotek -- Thursday, 7 April 2016, at 3:57 p.m.
      • Fairest order of tie-breakers for backgammon round-robin tournaments?
        Casper Van der Tak -- Sunday, 3 April 2016, at 7:12 p.m.