The current competition table with tied leaders (Feb 2020) reminds me I have been thinking for some time that our competition scoring system has a weakness – actually a couple of weaknesses. Just to remind you, the system is this:
Main game – 100 for 1st, 50 for 2nd, 25 for 3rd.
Backup game – 50 for 1st, 25 for 2nd, 10 for 3rd.
This makes tied scores quite common, in that the winner of the backup game gets the same points as the runner-up in the main game, and so on.
It also devalues the so called “backup” game – I believe the second game is worth more than half the main game. It is called the “backup” only for historical reasons, it was initially there to provide a backup in case the main game finished early. The number of times in club history that the main game went so long as to prevent the backup from being played is minuscule, you could probably count them on the fingers of one hand, and there have been over 360 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I propose that we change the competition point scores so that the winner of the backup game (keeping the traditional label) gets more points than the main game runner-up, and the backup runner-up gets more points than the main game 3rd place. Since the scores are calculated by a computer, it would be trivially easy to implement such a change, so I would be very interested in all of your thoughts on this proposal, especially if I’ve overlooked something critical that would make it unworkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If there is general agreement that we should make this change, we then need to decide when, and what numbers to use. To give you an example, if we use the numbers 120, 80,40 for the main game, and 100, 60, 20 for the backup, the current competition ladder would be:
Genelle: 260
Rob: 220
Louise: 160
Nicole: 120
Tara: 80
Note that I would be disadvantaged by this scheme, the leadership being no longer tied, but I still like it!
We could also opt for a more radical scheme, more like a Formula 1 table or a football comp table, for example:
Main game: 1st = 6, 2nd = 4, 3rd = 2
Backup game: 1st = 5, 2nd = 3, 3rd = 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, give me your ideas, and just to preempt the argument that “we shouldn’t change it because we’ve always done it this way” – if that was valid, then women would still not have the vote, gay people would still be prosecuted, etc, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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