DrDysfunctional
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What would be the best way to determine what everyone's average finish is for our tournaments?
I see plenty of threads that discuss formulas for league points but nothing for average finish. Would the same type of formula apply? I don't think it's fair to add up their finishes and divide by the number of tournaments they attended as we often don't have the same turnout. Quick example... player A finishes 8th in a 16 person tournament while player B finishes 8th in an 8 person tournament. Both of their averages would be 8 which to me isn't fair since player A finished in the top 50% while player B finished last.
I've been toying with this equation... place finished/total # of players, I then add up all their points and divide by the number of tournaments attended. Then I just sort them lowest to highest. This seems to give me a good ranking system in regard to place finished against the field but not necessarily what their average finish is. With this equation last place would always be valued at 1 no matter how many attendees I have.
Is there a good way to figure out average finish with it still being fair?
Should I scratch the idea of average finish and just go with a ranking system?
What would you do?
Other info if it helps...
We always have the same buy-in
We don't do rebuys/addons
Maybe once every other year we do a deep stack tournament otherwise it's always the same starting stack
We usually have attendance between 8 and 16
This is more out of curiosity than anything. I don't have enough interest (from my players) to actually track it for league play
I see plenty of threads that discuss formulas for league points but nothing for average finish. Would the same type of formula apply? I don't think it's fair to add up their finishes and divide by the number of tournaments they attended as we often don't have the same turnout. Quick example... player A finishes 8th in a 16 person tournament while player B finishes 8th in an 8 person tournament. Both of their averages would be 8 which to me isn't fair since player A finished in the top 50% while player B finished last.
I've been toying with this equation... place finished/total # of players, I then add up all their points and divide by the number of tournaments attended. Then I just sort them lowest to highest. This seems to give me a good ranking system in regard to place finished against the field but not necessarily what their average finish is. With this equation last place would always be valued at 1 no matter how many attendees I have.
Is there a good way to figure out average finish with it still being fair?
Should I scratch the idea of average finish and just go with a ranking system?
What would you do?
Other info if it helps...
We always have the same buy-in
We don't do rebuys/addons
Maybe once every other year we do a deep stack tournament otherwise it's always the same starting stack
We usually have attendance between 8 and 16
This is more out of curiosity than anything. I don't have enough interest (from my players) to actually track it for league play