dont play dumb, you know you have read that there will be NO TROPHY
Wed 25th Jan 2012 16:25 #3 / 31
Yes, I know that but I find it unfair. So I wwish to get some support in order to have this rule changed (for future tournaments who will end with a complete tie).
Wed 25th Jan 2012 17:39 #4 / 31
Can you get a third of a trophy somehow?
Wed 25th Jan 2012 17:45 #5 / 31
I wonder if this is a case where SODODOS would work? This is a tie-tie-tie breaker that I suggested a while back when the system was last tweaked.
Off hand -- Five Rocket Cars should Get the trophy because (s)he played Wonder Woman twice. WW has the best record and the toughest opponents of the non-winners).
Thu 26th Jan 2012 03:58 #6 / 31
M57 wrote:I wonder if this is a case where SODODOS would work? This is a tie-tie-tie breaker that I suggested a while back when the system was last tweaked.
Off hand -- Five Rocket Cars should Get the trophy because (s)he played Wonder Woman twice. WW has the best record and the toughest opponents of the non-winners).
Any kind of tie-tie-tie breaker would be nicer than giving no trophy at all. At worse victory could be by rolling dice.
Thu 26th Jan 2012 11:48 #7 / 31
As another option for a tie-tie-tie breaker, it could be given to the player with the lowest ranking on the board, they probably deserve it the most. Of course this still leaves the (increasingly infinitesimal) possibility of a tie.
Thu 26th Jan 2012 14:07 #8 / 31
M, it was round robin, so each winner played WW exactly once and won. All three performances are indistinguishable from a win/loss/matchup perspective. They each beat every non-winner, and amongst themselves had the circular, perfectly symmetric A beat B beat C beat A situation. Winning and deserving to win a tiebreak are based on asymmetries in matchups or performance, and there aren't any. This is as pure a tie as you can get unless you go down the Oz road of handicapping based on board ranking outside of the tournament. SODODOS won't break it because it is a w/l/matchup stat. (They beat all the non-winners, so the SODODOS contribution from that group is the same, and then it is the same contribution from each winner!)
I like the idea of handicapping tournaments - it works for golf after all! But it seems like it would have to be restricted to established popular boards for it to make sense.
Three trophies is fine with me. Do we even know what will happen? The tournament hasn't even ended.
Thu 26th Jan 2012 14:14 #9 / 31
Rolling for the win would be unsatisfactory to me from a competitive purity standpoint. But, if I were a hardcore gambler, I'd love this idea!
Thu 26th Jan 2012 15:03 #10 / 31
Hugh wrote:M, it was round robin, so each winner played WW exactly once and won.
Oh, you're right -- Hmm.. the game against WW show up twice when you go to the page of FRC's games.
Thu 26th Jan 2012 17:19 #11 / 31
Hugh wrote:...
Three trophies is fine with me. Do we even know what will happen? The tournament hasn't even ended.
Indeed, I am not sure what will happen although I am afraid no trophy will be given at all.
It has be discussed in the past : http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/1392p2/Solution_for_Tournament_Tiebreaker_Method
The only case of a true tie before the above mentioned tournament was given to fiveRocketCars as it was finished before the new rules were implemented : http://www.wargear.net/tournaments/view/366.
Sun 29th Jan 2012 00:27 #12 / 31
M57 wrote:Hugh wrote:M, it was round robin, so each winner played WW exactly once and won.
Oh, you're right -- Hmm.. the game against WW show up twice when you go to the page of FRC's games.
This is a bug. The game was actually played twice, it's not only a problem of showing up twice like it happens sometimes.
Wed 1st Feb 2012 05:17 #13 / 31
Well, the tournament is finished now. The trophy was given to 5RC. Why ?
Wed 1st Feb 2012 16:31 #14 / 31
Looks like a bug - this has been fixed.
Mon 20th Feb 2012 12:07 #15 / 31
Mon 20th Feb 2012 14:06 #16 / 31
Is there really a necessity for frugality here? Let each winner get their virtual trophy, I say!
Mon 20th Feb 2012 23:56 #17 / 31
squeek squeek
Tue 21st Feb 2012 01:09 #18 / 31
the squeeky wheel usually gets the grease.
Tue 21st Feb 2012 04:48 #19 / 31
I don't mind changing it to all tied players get a trophy if that is the consensus.
Thu 23rd Feb 2012 12:08 #20 / 31
AttilaTheHun wrote:Is there really a necessity for frugality here? Let each winner get their virtual trophy, I say!
You really want to cheapen the trophies that I hav yet to win??