[blml] Swiss Teams formats [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Steve Willner]

> From: "John Probst" <john at asimere.com>
> 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.

Not so.  I'm pretty sure that would be worse than equal-length matches. 
As Richard wrote, the point is not to weight some boards more than 
others (though non-linear VPs do that) but to have a stronger comparison 
between teams that are nearly equal in ability.