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    Reconsider How Ties Receive Points

    in HWBOT Rev.5

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    in this case I actually like no1, the avg, motivates you to try for higher and also affects the old score, as it has been matched, meaning it lost from its status no matter what

    That's an excellent point. I had been on side with Method 2 throughout the whole thread until ZL1's post, and suddenly I'm 100% convinced Method 1 would be better. With Method 2, bassplayer would receive the same 2nd place points for tying the existing score as he would if he beat it. There should be some degree of reward/incentive for beating an existing score.

     

    And now that I'm thinking this way, here's some mental diarrhea... One of the problems with NHL hockey is that some games are worth a combined 3 points (ones that go to overtime) while others are only worth a combined 2 points in the standings (ones settled in regulation time). This intrinsically suggests that closer games are 'more important' than games in which one team is clearly better than the other. The result of this imbalance is that at the end of the season teams are bunched together in the standings, providing less separation between better and worse teams than there would be if all games were worth three points like in soccer or two points like pre-Bettman hockey.

     

    In the case of hockey, it's exciting because any team - no matter how good or bad they may be in real life - has a legitimate chance of making the playoffs. And this creates excitement among fans, which is likely the only reason why the broken and imbalanced points system has never been addressed.

     

    This relates to the current question because as you get farther down the leaderboard, ties abound in significant quantities for most benchmarks - particularly on the CPU side of things. Method 2 would add quite a large sum of points to the system that previously did not exist. Based on the NHL experience, my concern then is that Method 2 would break the points system by creating an imbalance that would generate greater rewards for mediocre results and lesser rewards for superior results.

     

    But hey - like I said, that's just mental diarrhea while I procrastinate at work. Maybe the NHL example has no bearing on this case. Either way, I still feel like there should be a greater reward for beating an existing score than there is for tying it.

    Processor specifications requests : Add Xeon E7-8837

    in Support

    Posted · Edited by Dead Things

    Ticket ID: 1581

     

    Priority: Low

     

    Please add the 8-core E7-8837 and then change this submission accordingly so that it can be classified under the correct processor with the correct number of cores: http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2253860_preacherman_wprime_1024m_4x_xeon_e7_8850_47sec_878ms

     

    Processor specs:

    http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon%20E7-8837.html

    http://ark.intel.com/products/53576/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8837-%2824M-Cache-2_66-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI%29

     

    Thanks!

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