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Chris Hughes wrote:
>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.

Why?

I agree that it could produce some interesting results, here and there, 
some 'middling' teams may actually be able to beat some of the 'higher' 
teams that they just never normally get to play, but...

>penalise the top teams to give them tight games all weekend,
>irrelevant of the opposition.

IMHO, you'll need to define 'tight'?

For the sake of example, UTI (top of Tour ranking) playing Charnwood Sunz 
(bottom of Tour ranking, though admittedly this is affected by attendance) in a 
game to thirteen that starts 8-0 to Charnwood Sunz - is this 'tight' ?

Wayne
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