From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Jul 9 10:51:04 1998
Received: (from daemon@localhost)
by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id KAA19637
for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:37:15 +0100 (BST)
Received: from rh2.derwent.co.uk (rh2.derwent.co.uk [193.128.218.18])
by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA19616
for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:37:06 +0100 (BST)
From: amasson@derwent.co.uk
Received: from iegate.derwent.co.uk by rh2.derwent.co.uk with smtp
(SMAIL3.1.28.1#5)
id m0yuEBm-0001E3C;Thu, 9 Jul 98 11:44 BST
Received: from ccMail by iegate.derwent.co.uk
(IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 00039644; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:32:34 +0100
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:32:20 +0100
Message-ID: <00039644.1271@derwent.co.uk>
To: "'Britdisc'" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
"HUGHES; Chris" <CHughes@chelt.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Handicapping
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="IMA.Boundary.457679998"
Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
--IMA.Boundary.457679998
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: cc:Mail note part
A head start sounds good in principle, however a top team would just
play like demons to overhall the deficit and build a comfortable lead,
and then sit back and allow the poorer team to earn a few consolation
points, while maintaining their comfortable lead.
Therefore instead of giving the lower ranked team (LRT) a head start,
why not reward positive play by giving two, three or four points per
score to the LRT. This will ensure a tight match all the way through, as
the higher ranked team (HRT; hormone replacement therapy) will have to
score two, three or four times as many points as the LRT. The HRT will
also not able to relax to towards the end of the game (they usually do
against LRT, allowing them to score a few consolation points at the
end), as an apparently insurmountable lead will rapidly disappear with
a few quick LRT scores with a three or four point rating. Conversely
the LRT will always be in with a chance, so they will compete right up to the
end and not let their heads drop.
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Handicapping
Author: "HUGHES; Chris" <CHughes@chelt.ac.uk> at Internet
Date: 7/9/98 9:49 AM
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
--IMA.Boundary.457679998
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; name="RFC822 message headers"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: cc:Mail note part
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="RFC822 message headers"
Received: from rh2.derwent.co.uk (193.128.218.18) by iegate.derwent.co.uk with
SMTP
(IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 000395FA; Thu, 9 Jul 98 10:05:00
+0100
Received: from pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk by rh2.derwent.co.uk with smtp
(SMAIL3.1.28.1#5)
id m0yuDl0-0001Daa;Thu, 9 Jul 98 11:16 BST
Received: (from daemon@localhost)
by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id JAA13399
for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:50:42 +0100 (BST)
Received: from exchpk02.chelt.ac.uk (exchpk02.chelt.ac.uk [194.66.194.6])
by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13392
for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:50:40 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <199807090850.JAA13392@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Received: by exchpk02.chelt.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3)
id <3QMM2682>; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:50:59 +0100
From: "HUGHES, Chris" <CHughes@chelt.ac.uk>
To: "'Britdisc'" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Handicapping
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:49:15 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3)
Content-Type: text/plain
Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
--IMA.Boundary.457679998--