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More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier In Response To: More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks (Mislav Radica)
Date: Friday, 10 October 2008, at 8:37 p.m.
Matt, I am not such clever to read and understand your post. I am not interested in JT METs too but I think that long matches are very, very similar to money game and we all know that cube handling and checker play is simpler in money game than in matches. Also in three shorter matches you have more opportunities to reach some special scores like DMP, GG, GS or scores like 2a3a, 2a4a, 3a4a etc. when cube handling is more complex than in ONLY ONE 25 pts long match for example, and how one longer match can be more complex than three short matches?!
How can making the five point ever be wrong?
Consider that you are talking about a difference of perhaps 1% or 2% ME in either direction. Consider how many matches you would need to accumulate to actually statistically determine the answer (a lot). Consider how many matches someone can play throughout the course of their lifetime and keep in their memory...
I'd wager on my calculations.
There is one thread at Backgammon Galore! about that. I am now too lazy to find it but you maybe already read it. People there said that 25 one pointers are more favorable to better player than one 25 pointer.
I'll leave it to Daniel or Bob or someone to work this out. This would be fun but honestly I have no idea right now.
In Robertie's World Cup, which is known as tournament which won only by best players, format was best in three 9 pointers. Monte Carlo tournament has one longer matches and there are less great players which won tournaments than weak ones. This year was exception with Talbot won, but consider last year finialist for example.
How many World Cups and Monte Carlos have there been? What has the field/format been like? Is it statistically significant?
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