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Swiss tournament playoffs

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Saturday, 7 June 2008, at 12:55 p.m.

In Response To: Swiss tournament playoffs (bob koca)

Count an undefeated player as having 4 entries, a once defeated player as having 2, and a twice defeated player as having 1. Start the playoff rounds the first time the total number of entries is 8 or fewer. Another way of looking at this is that an undefeated player is automatically in the finals and a once defeated player is automatically to the semis. The two loss players may get lucky and get a bye to the semis if the total entries is not 8.

I think that's the way to go too. More generally, start the playoffs when the number of "entries" is n or fewer (a larger n means more rounds of playoffs) and use Huffman's algorithm to determine the pairings.

I prefer playoffs rather than continuing the Swiss.

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