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From: "HUGHES, Chris" <CHughes@chelt.ac.uk>
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Subject: Handicapping
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:49:15 +0100 
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Ok people, time to apply brain cell and think.

What I am trying to do is devise a handicapping system which will result
in an increased probability in a lower seeded team getting through to
the later places in a tournament.

So far the most simple strategy seems to be the most effective, in
giving the lower seeded team in any game a head start dependant on how
many seeding points they are behind their opposition.

However I was wondering if any one had any imaginative (and preferably
working, but for the sake of entertainment publish anything) ideas on
how to penalise the top teams to give them tight games all weekend,
irrelevant of the opposition.

Chris