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Weight of match length in tournament point system
Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer In Response To: Weight of match length in tournament point system (leobueno)
Date: Thursday, 20 September 2012, at 6:41 a.m.
How do you distribute byes?
The "correct" manner to distribute byes (from a sporting perspective), is to spread them out in the brackets, similar to how you would when seeding players.
However, a lot of backgammon tournament directors, like to skew the byes perfectly into the bottom of the brackets. This allows for two things: 1) all players can begin to play when the tournament starts (better time management from a player perspective), and in case you are allowing rebuys or something like that, you can keep filling up the brackets and begin matches.
Your points system would perform particularly bad (from what I think you're trying to accomplish), with the skewed distribution of byes. The disparity Bob points out, would accumulate up through the brackets, to even out at the final. Your m-1 formula would hold, but one side of the brackets would trail the other side exactly one step all the way through, giving a final where one player would play to quadruple his points, and the other player would play to double his points. For a 12 player tournament, the winner would get 11 points and the loosing finalist would get 7 or 3 points depending upon which side he came from. Effectively they would be playing for 4 and 8 points respectively in the final!
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