Swiss Tie-Breaker #2
Is there any way a second tie breaker could be added to the swiss format?
First divide even scores by the entrant's they won against's total wins like it already is then break up the scores that are still tied after that by using total wins of the entrants they lost against?
I would like to use this program to host tournaments for a game I run but currently we still end up with ties even with the current tiebreaker.
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Julian Gari commented
Yes agreed! We just had a Swiss tournament where two teams ended up with the exact same TB (wins against tied opponents) and exact same Median Buchholz. There should be another tiebreaker option to fix this, such as Buchholz that doesn't drop the top and bottom.
Example of the problem: https://challonge.com/MastersCup3/standings (see #6 and #7 in the standings)
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Phelan commented
See the following idea for sorting variables for swiss:
http://challonge.uservoice.com/forums/44455-feature-requests/suggestions/1146141-have-extra-sorting-variable-s-for-swiss-tournamen -
JimElNino commented
I agree completely, strength of schedule is a big part of Swiss, two people with one loss shouldn't be tied if one person lost to someone who is undefeated and the other lost to somebody who is below both of them (for example).