I remember the first time a few years ago, when the first 5-out-of-9 HERB was tried in a circuit event (because 5-out-of-5 didnāt work anymore with the huge turnoutsā¦) and watching the standings with @pinwizj, we realized how crazy it was that there were 9 sets of 5 and 10 point bonuses out there and they would totally screw somebody out qualifying, even if they put in 5 top 10 scoresā¦ It was after that, that I always petitioned the HERB-style tournaments I was involved in, to neuter those bonus points down based on the ratio of games needed to games available to play. So for a 6-of-10, I would use 100-94-91-90ā¦ and for 5-of-9, I would go down to 100-96-94-93.
The fact that there are any bonuses at all for the top two scores has always seemed silly and arbitrary to me as a player. PAPA has used that scoring for years, and itās fine there, because their format is NOT HERB and those bonus points donāt really have much bearing on the outcome of qualifying, because most of those bonus points get lost on tickets that donāt count (for instance, of 120 scores of the top 24 players, at PAPA 19, there were only eight first or second place scores that affected qualifying, and at PAPA 18, there were only five). But for HERB, all of those points will count every tournament and it wasnāt even that bad when everyone had to play all the games, but when there are more games available it really skews the results. And not in a good way, IMO.
I think weāve had plenty of threads here already that discuss using a simple curve function to decrease the points awarded for each finishing score in a standardized way and other than itās ācomplicatedā, I donāt understand why its not used over the silly and arbitrary 100-90-85-84ā¦ other than, you know, change is hard and itās much easier to keep doing it the way āitās always been doneā, even if thereās no good reason for it.
Notice anything about what it takes to get a top eight bye at Louisville lately ? lol
http://www.neverdrains.com/lax2016/playerIndex.php
And we can now add Pinvasion III to that: notice anything about what it takes to make the cut in Atlanta lately ? lol
http://neverdrains.com/pv3
I guess I have to add this one to my list of crusadesā¦
#ScoreHerbCorrectly!