[FSPA] FSPA: MOM's Organic Pinball Results for 09/17/2018 (Meet #1)

[Joe Schober]

Steph, there was no tiebreaker involved in your situation at MOM's.  Group movement is based on game points, not bonus points... so Tim had 9 (+ 2 effective) = 11 effective game points, while you had 10 game points.

You seem to agree with the effective points rule for a player who forfeits all games in a match.  The hidden gotcha is that there are actually five possible situations: a player might forfeit 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 games of a match, depending on how complete their preplay set is.  But wait, it's actually harder than that, because each player in a group can be in any of those 5 states.  A little quick math tells you that's 625 combinations in a four-player group.  Any rule for group movement has to handle any of these possibilities in a reasonable, consistent, and easily-understandable way.  Despite all the angst that it causes, the effective points rule is actually amazingly simple: "Only for the purposes of deciding group movement, pretend that a player who forfeited a game got 2 points on that game."  (Why 2?  Because that's the arithmetic average of points per player per game ... we want to assume that the player would've done dead average on the game(s) they missed.)  That's it. 

And again, just to be clear, Tim did not get any free points.  Effective points aren't "real".  (Maybe we should've called them phantom points.  :D ) You'll see on the standings that he has 11 total points: the 9 game points that he actually earned, plus 2 bonus for coming in second place overall in the group.  You, Steph, got 10 + 3 = 13.  You're ahead of Tim in the standings.  And Tim will theoretically have a harder time earning points next week against tougher opponents, while you will theoretically have slightly easier opponents.  All the advantages went to you, as the player who participated in all 4 games of the match.

Hope this helps...

--Joe
 
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