Solve this dilemma. Please.

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ajrack

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I have been running tourneys for about 30years. I often must make decisions being a T Director. Some format rules are not covered to all players satisfactions.

Situation: I am running a round robin Tourney...7 brackets with 7 players in each...each player plays each other player in their bracket (6 matches each to be played) ...
the player with the best Match won/loss record goes on to the finals and the players with the most Games won/loss records fill the final field.

NOW...if one of the players quit after they have had a couple of bad matches ... what should you do with the records of the remaining players who have not played this player who left?
Should they get scores of 6-0 or should the first matches played be disqualified?... or other choices?
I have tried different solutions.
Please give me some of your best ideas...
 
That is tough but I think the fairest solution would be to throw out the matches they played and everyone gets the same score. I would think that is the only real way to level something like that off. Just negate the player who left and everyone has a 6-0 score against him/her.
 
I play in a team tournament almost every year with this type of format. And almost every year at least one team drops out.

What they do is use the winning percentage. However, more games are played (6 teams in round robin 'flight', 25 games per match).

In order to stop players from quitting, you have to have some sort of ramifications, like banning them from playing in your tournaments again.
 
Well, some tournament would write it as default. So the remaining players who hasn't played him get the point. This decision would be fair since you don't know who will be quitting, and this should be on the rule before the start of the tournament.
 
You could take an average from the players who have already played, then give ALL the players that average, not just the ones that have yet to play. It's not fair to those that already beat the person that quit, but then again it's not fair for the person who lost to get a better winning % either, but it evens out IMO.
This is just something that I've used when it happens.

Zim
 
I'd just discount all their previous games, so that it's like everyone beat him.

As for the players who already beat him? It's hardly a big penalty, is it? Playing one irrelivant match.
 
This is just one of the reasons Round Robin tourneys are dying out. It was and is a bad idea. More "Business" has been done in Round Robin tourneys than any other type.
 
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