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**Iconoclast** · 10-30-2007, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by MOZ

... I regularly calculated data-points for different events, local and international. While we should not expect to prove a casual relationship between attendance at events and their 'competitive index', we can still speculate and examine co-incidental data; that surely is better than just anecdotal opinion as a methodology.

MOZ,
1. you have well and truely proved your theory that the first few rounds of a giant Swiss is full of strength mismatches.

The next step is to ask the punters
1. Do they want those mismatches and salp taking opportunties?
2. Do they want more tight matches.

Depending on the answers we might find that a solution is (and can!) be found to accomodate both camps.

10-30-2007, 04:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
Iconoclast Immoderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wollongong NSW Posts: 2,302	Originally Posted by MOZ ... I regularly calculated data-points for different events, local and international. While we should not expect to prove a casual relationship between attendance at events and their 'competitive index', we can still speculate and examine co-incidental data; that surely is better than just anecdotal opinion as a methodology. MOZ, 1. you have well and truely proved your theory that the first few rounds of a giant Swiss is full of strength mismatches. The next step is to ask the punters 1. Do they want those mismatches and salp taking opportunties? 2. Do they want more tight matches. Depending on the answers we might find that a solution is (and can!) be found to accomodate both camps. __________________ The individual is hopeless without the group. The group is hopeless without its individuals.