"David Kane" <davidekane@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:7KSdnen0rP-
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>> Please justify your assertion that awarding less than half a point for
>> a draw is mathematically more sound.
>
> I suppose it is not pure mathematics, but empirically the half point
> draw has produced a situation where contestants routinely
> avoid playing real games. Imagine, for example, we awarded a
> draw the value of 0.9. What do you predict that change would
> make to the game, and would it improve the game? Same
> arguments apply to 0.5.
That's a fair question. I would also like to add to it the list of
questions
I posed David Richerby in the immediately preceeding post - not as a
challenge to David, but to try to initially establish /where/ the draw
problem is.
I suspect that we only address the top 1% of players, that historically
there were fewer draws among them, and there is also likely to be a gender
differential.
Phil Innes
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