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ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
December 18 2010 22:59 GMT
#661
I think the correct way of thinking about it is that utah loses but all records are removed. When a strong team enters, they suffer the penalty of losing to B and so that means they are actually weaker. I don't see how else you could do it unless you have a whole bunch of additional matches. Perhpaps more matches is fairest...would teams really mind playing 1 additional game?
Jaedong :3
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 18 2010 23:30 GMT
#662
On December 19 2010 07:54 JiYan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 15 2010 09:15 Chairman Ray wrote:

The point of the preseason is to find the top schools in each division. To do this, you need to compare the teams against each other. If Utah is not among the teams, comparing the teams to Utah would be an inaccuracy.

Let's say for example there is a division with 8 team, team A through H. Let's say team A is the top team, because they are better than every single other team, and Team B is the runner up because they are better than every other team except for A. But team B beat Utah who dropped out, while team A was given a free win. Does this mean that team B is better than team A?

It's the same situation in phoenix division. How well teams scored vs Utah has no indication on how teams would rank vs each other. The only way to find which schools are the best in each division is to compare them with each other. Additionally, giving teams a bonus for beating Utah would be an unfair advantage over teams that did not play against them at all. If a team does not play against Utah, are they worse than a team that beat Utah?


what would you say if team B beat utah, utah got replaced by team X who is really strong and beats team A. what do you think about that?


When a new school is added, it will introduce a certain degree of inaccuracy due to that school not being able to play any school that Utah played. We want this inaccuracy to only affect team X by under-representing them and we do not want it to affect any other team. In order to do this, all of Utah's game must be disregarded. For the same reason why Utahs games must be disregarded, any game played by team X must be disregarded for the opposing team. For every original team in the group, their scores do not include either Utah or team X. This way, neither the removal of Utah or the addition of team X can affect the rankings in any way. Team X can be placed as first if they have more wins than team A, and can be placed second if they have more wins than B and less than A. Team X's record cannot be better than it would be if they were in the group from the beginning since every game missed counts against them. Therefore if team X got first, they deserved first, but if they got second, they may or may not have deserved first, but that's okay since they should have registered on time. This method works because no matter how good or how bad Utah and team X do, team B will never be above team A.
DarthThienAn
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2734 Posts
December 18 2010 23:53 GMT
#663
How do you suggest we compare schools then? ie. Team X will only have 9 games in the season, whereas other schools will have 16 games. Win percentage? Hard win/losses? Neither of these really work.

Say Utah played the 5 hardest teams in the division, and then they got replaced. Team X is worst than those teams but better than all of the other teams. They go 11-0. Other teams are, say, 12-4, 11-5, 13-3, 15-1, etc. How do we place them? If we do win percentages, then it's not really fair because Team X didn't have as many chances to "lose". Hard win/losses makes it pretty impossible for Team X to make playoffs. Or, even if the division is extremely even, and teams are something like 8-8, 9-7, and Team X has the most wins (10-1, 11-0, etc.), then that's not really fair either because they didn't have to play the "best" schools in that division.
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Impervious
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada4222 Posts
December 19 2010 21:05 GMT
#664
There's no fair way of doing it..... There really isn't..... I can't think of a single situation where it works out in a fair way for everyone involved..... Adding teams seems to screw with the divisions, regardless of how you try to handle it.....
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JiYan
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3668 Posts
December 19 2010 22:38 GMT
#665
this situation is applicable to Emory University as team X, Chairman Ray. Emory auto-forfeitted their first 3 matches but are now doing quite well in their other matches
Impervious
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada4222 Posts
December 21 2010 06:30 GMT
#666
Winter Solstice CSL Tournament

For most of us, exams are over. For the unlucky few who haven’t finished their exams, well, that’s pretty unfortunate; because a tournament for CSL players is happening at 4 pm on December 21, 2010. Nothing is on the line, except your pride and honour. Even though the sun is at its darkest for us tomorrow, our top CSL players have an opportunity to shine!

If you are interested in participating, send an email to logan@uostarcraft.com between 4 pm EST and 4:20 pm EST on the 21st, with your handle and character code, your race of choice for the tournament, and what school you are attending. The rules and format for the tourney will be posted on Teamliquid.net shortly after that, with the first round starting at 4:30. A link will be sent to all of the players.

The games will be cast and commentated on, so if there are any streamers interested in casting these games, send an email to logan@uostarcraft.com with your streaming info, handle, and character code.

Cheers! And see you on the electronic battlefield!
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-21 07:00:14
December 21 2010 06:36 GMT
#667
On December 19 2010 08:53 DarthThienAn wrote:
How do you suggest we compare schools then? ie. Team X will only have 9 games in the season, whereas other schools will have 16 games. Win percentage? Hard win/losses? Neither of these really work.

Say Utah played the 5 hardest teams in the division, and then they got replaced. Team X is worst than those teams but better than all of the other teams. They go 11-0. Other teams are, say, 12-4, 11-5, 13-3, 15-1, etc. How do we place them? If we do win percentages, then it's not really fair because Team X didn't have as many chances to "lose". Hard win/losses makes it pretty impossible for Team X to make playoffs. Or, even if the division is extremely even, and teams are something like 8-8, 9-7, and Team X has the most wins (10-1, 11-0, etc.), then that's not really fair either because they didn't have to play the "best" schools in that division.


Under the status quo, placement is determined through wins, not through win percentage, so it's not a problem. A team going 12-6 will be ahead of a team going 11-0. Team X cannot obtain any advantage through this because if they skipped all the matches vs hard schools, they would have the same number of wins, and if they would have won some of those games, then they are under-represented. Both cases are perfectly fine.

To restate things, basically, inserting teams and deleting teams causes problems. Inserting a strong team will reward the teams that got a free win beforehand, and punish the teams that they play. In my previous post, I mentioned a solution, and what it does is emulate the standings where the inserted/deleted teams did not exist in the first place. This way, no team has an advantage over another. The inserted team has their number of wins, and if that number of wins allows them to qualify for playoffs, then they go to playoffs, because we know 100% sure that if that school was in the division in the first place, they would have gotten at least that many wins. If that school was just shy of playoffs because of auto-losses, and beat some of the playoff schools, they should try to sign up on time next season.
DarthThienAn
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2734 Posts
December 21 2010 07:05 GMT
#668
To be honest, I think replacing UVU would cause too many problems. So we'll probably just leave it as all 3-0s (no effect). ^^.

As far as I can tell, your method seems alright though.
www.cstarleague.com | Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 21 2010 07:10 GMT
#669
Emory hasn't caused any problems as of yet, but they have to lose to every school that has a chance of making playoffs. They have already given free wins to the two Maryland schools, which are two top schools in the division. If they beat all the other top schools, then it creates an inaccuracy.
Miles_Edgeworth
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States141 Posts
December 21 2010 07:16 GMT
#670
Even if they do lose to all the other schools, it still creates a potential discrepancy with set differential.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 21 2010 07:20 GMT
#671
On December 21 2010 16:16 Miles_Edgeworth wrote:
Even if they do lose to all the other schools, it still creates a potential discrepancy with set differential.


Yes I agree, which is why I suggested to consider their scores completely independently. This is the closest way we're going to get fair results.
hazelynut
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2197 Posts
December 29 2010 03:51 GMT
#672
???

I don't know what this is....hmmmmm.
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 29 2010 03:56 GMT
#673
WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!!!
yenta
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Poland1143 Posts
December 29 2010 04:25 GMT
#674
On December 29 2010 12:51 hazelynut wrote:
???

I don't know what this is....hmmmmm.


Obviously a new year's count down. Nothing to see here people, move along, move along!
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Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
December 29 2010 04:45 GMT
#675
Unless they have an announcement during new years, but who would be the one to update csl's website at the stroke of midnight, meh
Follow me: www.twitter.com/zlasher
DarthThienAn
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2734 Posts
December 29 2010 05:42 GMT
#676
On December 29 2010 13:45 ZlaSHeR wrote:
Unless they have an announcement during new years, but who would be the one to update csl's website at the stroke of midnight, meh

We all have no lives.
www.cstarleague.com | Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
December 29 2010 18:29 GMT
#677
On December 29 2010 12:51 hazelynut wrote:
???

I don't know what this is....hmmmmm.


so mysterious mistress zhang.
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DarthThienAn
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2734 Posts
December 31 2010 11:30 GMT
#678
Custom games 2 good yo
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Cedstick
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada3336 Posts
December 31 2010 11:41 GMT
#679
I have a question. I'm guessing you implemented the 2v2 match to attract a wider audience. During next year's season, do you plan on removing it? Everyone I've personally talked to, including all on my team, think a standard best-of-5 -- all 1v1's -- would be great.
"What does Rivington do when he's not commentating?" "Drool." ~ Categorist
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21248 Posts
December 31 2010 11:44 GMT
#680
On December 31 2010 20:41 Cedstick wrote:
I have a question. I'm guessing you implemented the 2v2 match to attract a wider audience. During next year's season, do you plan on removing it? Everyone I've personally talked to, including all on my team, think a standard best-of-5 -- all 1v1's -- would be great.


We had a vote. 2v2 was voted in by the majority.
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