rbodleyscott wrote: It isn't quite as simple as that, because the winner in hard-fought games could score as little as 61%. I think some of the other players in the tournament might justifiably be miffed if someone who won because of a concession - which is sometimes because a player cannot be bothered to continue, rather than because he would have lost if he did - should get that much higher a score. It isn't their fault that the player's opponent conceded, and therefore it is important that they aren't effectively penalised by giving the "victor" of a conceded game too high a score.
I think in these sort of timed events we should assume that players who resign are doing so because they are getting beaten and that their resignation should really be regarded as their army routing due to a superior enemy performance. And we should also assume that the players who are timed out are the ones who "can't be bothered". I know these assumptions are not 100% correct, but they are certainly 95%+ correct. So I think if these "resigned" games were awarded 85-0 then most players would think that was fair. Giving the resigning player zero points might encourage some players who are losing heavily to fight it out to the bitter end.
The timed out games are awkward as well, particularly in the first round when a weaker player may not want to play against one of the top players if they get an unlucky draw. So the better player gets 2x60pts, but they may have got 2x100pts, so they are down 80pts through no fault of their own. Maybe the timed out games should be scored 75-0 when they have not started and 85-0 if they have (effectively treating it like a resignation). I think it is quite complicated; and some players will care about it while others are not too bothered as long as they can have some enjoyable games.
I agree that they should probably get more than 60, but possibly not as high as 85.
I guess what we need to look at is the average score for completed games, which we will be able to do when this tournament is complete, discounting the ones that were concessions. Then perhaps the "winner" of a conceded game should get something based on that - whatever it turns out to be.
Yes, that will be interesting to see. But you can roughly work it out already. If we say that the maximum a player can get from a game is 105pts (winning 45-0) and the smallest win you can get is 61pts; the half-way point between 61 and 105 is 83. So I think 85 which equals 60pts for the win and 25pts representing the default winning margin is about right.
