Author: Louis Fagliano
Date: 13:54:54 12/18/01
On December 18, 2001 at 01:41:06, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >PS: if you really feel like you say you do, then here is a tip: Don't follow The >Odyssey, and don't post what you think here, write Thorsten and suggest what you >think could make it more interesting to you. I am sure people here can make up >there own mind about it, no need to share.... > >Regards >Jonas Well, I got a suggestion as to how to make it more interesting: Make this a full round robin of 25 rounds! Why not? It's already a 15 round swiss and that's way too many rounds for a swiss tournament of 26 participants because you'll eventually run out of programs (or players) with similar scores to pair up. After playing 15 rounds you're 60% of the way to a full round robin and you might as well complete the round robin if you've gotten that far. The reason behind this is that I've heard that the number of rounds to determine a statistically significant winner in a swiss tournament is 2 to the power of how many rounds you need equals the number participants you have. Thus with 26 participants, 2 to the 5th power equals 32, so five rounds was enough to determine a winner. Any more rounds than that and you'll start running into pairings where the opponents' scores won't match. If anybody has a different opinion, let me know.
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