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Scoring VP at WMSG

#1 User is offline   dicklont 

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Posted 2011-December-10, 06:24

In the results of the World Mind Sports Games I see results like imps: 34-26, VP 54-38.
The matches divide 92 victorypoints, sometimes less.

Is this used more often or is it unique in the WMSG?
Why do they prefer this to the regular 30 VP scoring?
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Posted 2011-December-10, 19:14

The scoring method is basically each team gets its match result in +/- the net imps but capped at 46 imps; but to avoid teams going negative each team effectively starts with 46 imps so the worst result possible is 0 and best result possible is 92. I assume the match in which the total doesn't add to 92 is due to slow a play fine.

This scoring method is quite common in Australia for small field round-robins, although quite often the capping is 30 imps plus 10% of the excess to a maximum of 32.5 for winners and -35 for losers (e.g. Australian Interstate Teams Championship). I think the idea to avoid the compression caused by VP conversion.
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Posted 2011-December-10, 20:19

David -- Thanks so much for the explanation

It was mystery to me throughout Day 1

Now -- do you know what, if any carryover goes into the 48 board Final/Playoff

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