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Factors for Tournament Attendance (2) -- WSOB Point System
Posted By: Bill Riles In Response To: Factors for Tournament Attendance (2) (Rich Munitz)
Date: Tuesday, 6 October 2009, at 4:24 a.m.
http://www.worldseriesofbackgammon.com/?view=pointsystem
I see a couple of problems with their system as it would relate to the ABT. In the WSOB you get the same number of points in each of the three tourneys for winning, finalist, semifinalist, quarterfinalist, etc. This is great if all the tournaments are of approximately the same size.
Obviously, getting to the semis, finals, or winning Michigan (with 95 or so entrants this years) should be worth considerably more than progressing in the same manner in a tournament of 22 or 30 entrants.
Also, we have tourneys of different formats -- single elimination with consolation and last chance, double elimination, Swiss, and various others. So, the point system would have to, in some manner, recognize and account for these differences.
In my estimation, matches in a round of 32 -- be that a first round or a third round -- should, effectively, be worth the same amount. But, is that true? Reaching the third round of Michigan should be better than just entering Minnesota or Colorado -- though you would get some points for the two wins. But in Michigan in the round of 32 you would be playing those potentially having won two matches where in Minnesota or Colorado you would be playing anyone that put up their money.
Maybe we set a point system assuming a 64 person field and just apply a multiplication factor for the actual ration of the size of the field above or below 64.
But we still have to address the double elimination, Swiss, modified Swiss, etc. formats.
We could work it out but it will just take some thought on how to resolve the various differences.
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