[blml] Swiss scoring [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Konrad Ciborowski]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herman De Wael" <hermandw at skynet.be>

> You are forgetting one thing here, Richard. When a stronger team
> playes a weaker over a 1VP scale, they have a chance of losing, but if
> they don't, the 1VP is in the bank. Over a 25VP scale, they have less
> chance of "losing",

Why?

> but they might win "only" 16-14, thereby dropping
> 9VP on their rivals.

I am pretty sure that the average expectancy is the
same regardless of the VP scale - 0-1 or 0-25.
What changes is the variance which means that
weaker teams have a better chance to win
the 0-1 event.

Konrad Ciborowski
Kraków, Poland


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