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jzallen

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points formula help (again)
« on: May 31, 2023, 11:00:48 AM »
I need help, again, with a points formula.  I can't figure it out

20 players

points as follows
•   1st 35
•   2nd 29
•   3rd 28
•   4th 27
•   5th 21
•   6th 20
•   7th 19
•   8th 18
•   9th 17
•   10th 16
•   11th 10
•   12th 9
•   13th 8
•   14th 7
•   15th 6
•   16th 5
•   17th 4
•   18th 3
•   19th 2
•   20th 1

Then the tricky part!
whoever knocks out the 20th place player gets 1 bonus point
whoever knocks out the 19th place player gets 2 bonus points (reverse ladder on purpose)
then at the 10 hand final table, all player eliminations are worth 10 points each

can this be done, Corey?

Corey Cooper

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Re: points formula help (again)
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2023, 07:13:12 PM »
My first thought is that of course it can be done.  But now that I've actually started thinking about it, I don't think so.  Hits/eliminations aren't "ranked" so there's no way to tell (to the formula) the rank of the player who is busted out.  In other words, when computing the points for player A, we know how many hits player A achieved but we don't know the ranks of the players who were player A's victims.  So we can't give different amounts of points for busting out players at different stages of the tournament.  Furthermore, since any player could have multiple hits, we'd have to somehow run each of them through the formula as each could be awarded different point amounts.  That's just a little more advanced than the formula can handle today.