You could enter all the results into Bayeselo and use the relative elos to define the final ranking.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Jason House <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that it seems complicated. What's wrong with a flat number of points > for each place in a tournament? Variation in points due to time limits, and > board sizes is very subjective. > > Having too few rounds increases the variability of results, so I could see > reducing the spread of points between places, but total points awarded > shouldn't change. That's tough to get correct and maybe it's better not to > adjust for that? > > The number of *strong* players in a tournament can drastically effect the > final results. This is probably the only factor to use to increase the total > points awarded. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Nick Wedd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In June, Hideki Kato wrote >> >>> Hello Nick, >>> >>> What do you think about the idea to establish the series (anual) >>> champion of the KGS bot tournaments, by assigning some points >>> to the winners of each tournament. The points, as well as the number >>> of winners who can have the points, can vary depends on the number of >>> the participants of each tournament. >>> >>> This could help many strong programs will participate most of the >>> monthly tournaments. >> >> I agreed that this would be a good thing, and intended to announce the rules >> before the July KGS bot tournament. I designed a scoring scheme, but did >> not much like it. So I delayed announcing it, and tinkered with the scoring >> scheme. I still did not much like it, so I delayed again and tinkered >> again. And again, and again. >> >> What I have settled on is described at >> http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/annual/index.html >> I still do not like it. Its most obvious fault is that it is _far_ too >> complicated (the result of repeated tinkering). But further tinkering is >> not going to help. What is described on that page is what I am going to >> use, for this experimental half-year. For 2011, I will accept suggestions >> for improving and simplifying the scoring scheme. >> >> The results so far, after three tournaments in this half year, are >> 1st Zen on 12 points >> 2nd Erica on 10 points >> 3rd Many Faces on 6 points >> 4th Aya on 5 points >> 4th pachi on 5 points >> 6th Fueg on 1 point >> 6th MoGo on 1 point >> >> Nick >> -- >> Nick Wedd [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
