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Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Sunday, 21 March 2010, at 8:41 p.m.

In Response To: Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments (Mislav Radica)

1) I've used Buchholz, throwing out the lowest two opponent scores. But only for awarding trophies -- if for example 3 players were tied for 2nd, 3rd and 4th, place, they'd each get an equal share of 2nd+3rd+4th place money.

2) Random. Even a long-time ELO system has too much variance to be a reliable indicator of strength. The only tournament I know that makes pairings by rank is the 128-player Danish championship.

3) Ask DBgf what they use, if any. Manual is not hard, for small tournaments. I've explained how this is done in a post some months ago.

4) Irrelevant.

Messages In This Thread

• Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments
  Mislav Radica -- Sunday, 21 March 2010, at 8:13 a.m.
  • Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments
    Bob Koca -- Sunday, 21 March 2010, at 4:32 p.m.
    • Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments
      neilkaz -- Sunday, 21 March 2010, at 5:28 p.m.
      • Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments
        Bob Glass -- Monday, 22 March 2010, at 11:09 p.m.
  • Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments
    Tomawaky -- Sunday, 21 March 2010, at 7:03 p.m.
  • Questions about swiss tie-break in backgammon tournaments
    Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 21 March 2010, at 8:41 p.m.