Would this work, or has a tourney done it?

[Valen]

I agree Joe, but I think making a player step out of his 1-0 grind make or break shell to win by using a creative scoring system will ensure the best person wins instead of the one trick ponys out there

[Darkson]

Hmm - maybe 50 win, 25 draw, 5 loss, 1pt per 2 TDs total, 1 pt per 3 Cas total.

Gonna plug that into Score, see what difference (if any) it would make to old results - reckon I can pretty much guarentee Lycos still wins '09 though, possibly by a greater margin.

[DoubleSkulls]

Generally the points make very little difference to the top position or two in a swiss tourney. However its when you get down into the mid-table that it really starts to matter. The normal exception would be where you've got two people finishing on the same record (5-1-0 having drawn against each other) in which case then use what makes sense.

For Euc Bowl I used a varying points system - something like 50/20/10 with +/-6 based on combined net cas & TD. So there was plenty of incentive to go and chase extra cas & td from the scoring system, but it rarely made a difference to the final placing of the top 5-10.

However I've abandoned that for this year to allow the draw to get tier 2/3 teams with the same record to play each other and to have the strength of schedule as the tie break (i.e. so the tie break is the sum of the scores of your opponents - so how hard a set of opponent's did you play).

[firebreather]

You Had me at hello.

Fixed that for you

Back on topic, simplicity normally works best