Monday 3 June 2019

Trouble in the extremes - Tourney Scoring

Trouble in the extremes - Tourney Scoring
There seems (to me) to be bug bears with each scoring system.
With each system having fan base and haters.
I am loving the move towards scenario scoring.
I think with upset I had with a couple of people winning 1 out of 4 games, but scoring higher than a couple that won 2 out of 4 games. 
I wanted to explore the edge cases a bit further to work out if there was a system that this could not happen in, and it seems no, any system that combines, Result, scenario and Kill/attrition scoring into a single round score, can fall intentionally or unintentionally to this.
The screw balls are in the extreme scores.
Just for Awareness, a single Max win is very hard to beat, esp if the subsequent loses are max bonus all the way.
So I wanted to work out some of the pros and cons for each system.