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michealspencer

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Need help formula for tournament
« on: June 14, 2021, 11:08:43 PM »
Hi all, I want to create a tournament with my poker room. I need a formula for the tournament. Each tournament has a certain quota (experience points). BuyIn players get 3 points. If the tournament has 30 entrants then the number of points available is 300. That 300 points can be divided by the first 5 places.
Any ideas? Thanks!


Corey Cooper

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Re: Need help formula for tournament
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2021, 03:21:58 PM »
Is the quota simply 10 X the number of entrants?  If so your formula would look something like this:

3 + (buyins * 10) * switch(rank, 1, .45, 2, .25, 3, .15, 4, .1, 5, .05)

This would give each player 3 points, and 1st through 5th place would get 45%, 25%, 15%, 10%, and 5%, respectively, of the points quota.  In a tournament of 30 players, 1st through 5th places would get 135 points, 75 points, 45 points, 30 points, and 15 points, respectively.