robert bristow-johnson wrote:
because *both* the winning votes is tied and the margins is tied. what
else is there?
i wonder if it would be better to first rank each pair according to
Margins and then, in the case of tie of Margins, Winning Votes are used
to break the tie to determine
If we are talking about natural measures of defeat strength, then I must say
that margins and ratio seem reasonably sensible to me, and winning votes does
not. It is hard to justify the idea that defeat 49-48 is as strong as 49-0, and
defeat 49-48 is stronger than 48-0. It is also weird that if
so this is interesting. it seems to be an extension of Tideman
ranked-pairs that considers first the margins and then the opposing
votes (or winning votes for the opponent) to break ties. is that
essentially it?
On 11/27/11 10:21 PM, Ross Hyman wrote:
When beat path produces a tie, this
