[FSPA] FSPA: Ocelot Results for 02/28/2022 (Meet #4)

[The Bob]

There is no concept in the scoring software for weighting games.  There's a
pool of available games and it picks from that pool.  It has no idea that
one game lasts 5 minutes and the other can last 30.  A future enhancement
might be to add an adjustable priority or weight to each game which limits
how often it's selected.  Or maybe think of it as a difficulty level and
put lower ranked players into games with a lower difficulty level (longer
playing) and put the higher ranked players on Whirlwind, Black Hole, Hot
Wheels, and GotG. :)  Swiss style game selection instead of player
selection.



On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 4:35 AM Joe Schober via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

> Kenneth Padgett wrote...
>
> > I'm sure this has been addressed, but can anyone enlighten me as to the
> reason games are not more evenly distributed?
>
> Short summary is: when using the "Shuffle Machines" feature in the
> scorekeeping system, each group gets a random set of games that is intended
> to ensure that a group doesn't play a game more than once on a night (if
> possible), nor are any groups scheduled for the same machine in the same
> "round" (if possible).  Because of the nature of "random", in the short
> term (e.g. one night), sometimes you get clumps of outcomes, sometimes you
> get outcomes that are more evenly distributed.
>
> Over a stretch of time (e.g. a season), the number of plays across all
> machines is in fact pretty evenly distributed (obviously assuming no
> external factors, like machines being added or removed mid-season).  Any
> given machine might be assigned to 1 group this week, 4 groups next week,
> and 2 groups the week after... or any other pattern you can imagine, much
> like rolling a fair die.  It all tends to balance out pretty well.  Of
> course, it's understandable how it might not feel that way if you happen to
> be in a group that's logjammed by another group that's absolutely blowing
> up a machine, or by a machine that blew up.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Joe
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