A player in a room I play in has started a twelve week tournament. The game is one and fifteen eight ball. The format is best of three double elimination. In addition to the weekly first and second prize, total wins will be awarded via a play off of the top four scorers over the twelve weeks. Scoring is strictly by games won with no handicap point system.
We played the first match this week and it took a while to get through all the games. Now he is changing the format so that if and when a player goes to the B side it will be only one game. Win and go on. Lose any B side and your out. Fair enough. I am wondering if anyone knows if this will affect the total number of wins. While I think it is possible to get more wins on a B side since someone who wins out usually plays less games than the A side it seems that winning two while B players only win one gives A players an edge in total wins over the long haul.
If anyone has experience running tournaments and can weigh in on this format and how the stats would play out please do so. He has not said but I would expect that when the winner from the B side makes it back to the A player side at the finish the format should go back to two loses for each of them. Yes?
We played the first match this week and it took a while to get through all the games. Now he is changing the format so that if and when a player goes to the B side it will be only one game. Win and go on. Lose any B side and your out. Fair enough. I am wondering if anyone knows if this will affect the total number of wins. While I think it is possible to get more wins on a B side since someone who wins out usually plays less games than the A side it seems that winning two while B players only win one gives A players an edge in total wins over the long haul.
If anyone has experience running tournaments and can weigh in on this format and how the stats would play out please do so. He has not said but I would expect that when the winner from the B side makes it back to the A player side at the finish the format should go back to two loses for each of them. Yes?
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