[FSPA] FSPA: CarPool Results for 06/26/2019 (Meet #6)

[Joe Schober]

A quick visit to the Wayback Machine:

> On Sep 18, 2018, at 5:09 PM, Joe Schober <afljoeys at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Ah, the effective points debate... a season without it is like a day without sunshine...  :D  


So just as a quick refresher (or intro for those who are new), FSPA's group movements try to shuffle people into groups of "similar skill".  If a player forfeited a game (or all the games) of a match, it does not mean that player sucked at those games... they simply didn't participate.  So instead of those forfeit(s) causing the forfeiting player to unfairly move down a group (or perhaps, causing a participating player to NOT move down when they "should"), we pretend -- for grouping purposes only -- that the forfeiting player got 2 league points in each game they missed... that would be a dead-average performance.  That is "effective points".  Sometimes it leads to some unexpected / non-intuitive results, but no one yet has proposed an alternate solution that's "better" and reasonably handles all the edge cases (one or more players in a group each forfeiting one or more games, in any combination).  But hey, if anyone's got an idea, we always accept suggestions!  info at fspazone.org

Thanks...

--Joe

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