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Tournament formats

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 7:00 p.m.

In Response To: Tournament formats (Bob Koca)

If the goal is to find the best player given time constraints then use of variance reduced results will help a lot.

But variance reduction would require all matches to be transcribed into computer, right?

Ignoring that slight inconvenience, how do you envision a VR tournament working? One possibility would be to play a swiss style tournament with the winner of each match receiving 1 minus their net luck in the match and loser receiving 0 minus their net luck in the match. (A total of 1 point awarded between the two players.)

The winner of the tournament would be the player with the highest total after n rounds. (Or the top so many players could advance to the playoffs.)

An interesting side effect is that, if you are not told what the result of the VR is, you won't know for sure how well you're doing in the tournament. So it will be in everyone's interest to play their best until the end.

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