Tournament management issues

[Gary Larson]

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Jim Hanson wrote:

> gary
>
> 13% CC and 15% AB/CC seem rather high to me. what would happen if you did 25% a, 25% b, 20% c, 30% strike. this way, i'm thinking you basically wouldn't need to do any cc/ab matchings except in unusual circumstances.
>
> jim hanson
> whitman college
>
It would improve it somewhat BUT it should be noted how this compares to
current models.  Perhaps I should call it A1, A2, B, rather than A, B, C.
CC matches are what everyone calls BB matches now - Wake's invite said
that they would use low % of required A's (40%) with the understanding
that people would get several BB's matches.  Using the second model, only
8% of all rounds would receive such matches and always in rounds with
teams that have been eliminated.  While AB "sounds" bad, they now occur
all the time - only we call them AA matches at present.  I chose 20%
A(A1) and 20% B(A2) simply for the sake of argument.  It divides the A
group into two halves and tries to increase mutuality within that pool.
In roughly 86% of the cases, it succeeds.


Sincerely,

GARY