[blml] Swiss Teams formats [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[John Probst]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <richard.hills at immi.gov.au>
To: "Herman De Wael" <hermandw at skynet.be>
Cc: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Swiss Teams formats [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> Herman De Wael:
>
>>Richard,
>>
>>I too find it an interesting idea.
>
> [snip]
>
>>We are currently looking at ameliorating the Final of the Flanders'
>>Cup, which is currently a Swiss over 9 matches of 6 boards, with 64
>>teams! The better players are starting to complain that it is becoming
>>a lottery. Maybe a change such as this one could help! We don't really
>>want to change the number of teams nor the length of the final.

The idea of playing shorter matches earlier and longer ones later is 
interesting; It says:- later rounds are more significant and teams must have 
more time to establish their true worth

Say you play 5,6,7,8,9,10,11 board matches for your 7 rounds. You might just 
as well use different VP scales and play 8's throughout because you are 
saying that later rounds are more significant. Thus if the 8 board match 
scores 20-0 for a 30 imp win (per UK); you just create VP scales say 0-14 rd 
1; 0-16 rd 2; 0-18 rd 3 etc etc with a max being round about 28-32 imps 
depending on the number of VPs. This makes the later rounds more 
significant, as indeed does playing matches of different lengths.

John