[blml] Swiss Teams formats [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Richard Willey:

>Girben Dirksen, Alex Ogan and I are doing some work studying
>different formats for Swiss team type events.  Our end goal is
>trying to determine how to make these events more "efficient".
>
>For the purpose of this discussion, we're assuming that
>efficient = accurate.  Our only goal is to produce a system
>that is as accurate as possible in rating the various teams
>that participate.

Richard Hills:

A question more relevant to Swiss Teams where there is multiple
qualification to _finals_ (as, for example, the Aussie National
Open Teams, where 16 teams qualify from a Swiss to a knockout)
is accurate determination of the _best_ teams, since accurate
determination of mid-field or trailing teams is not necessary.

For some decades now some chess tournaments have used the
Accelerated Swiss method to, in theory, more accurately
determine the _best_ chess players in a Swiss.  I am not sure
if this theory is correct, since when I created a WBF Victory
Point translation of Accelerated Swiss, a computer analysis by
Wayne Burrows apparently found it inferior to a normal Swiss.

Of course, the assessment of "inferior" is dependent upon the
parameters and assumptions that Wayne used in his program, so I
would be interested in a further test of the Accelerated Swiss
concept by the Willey / Dirksen / Ogan program.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6223 9052

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