I'm hoping that we can remove the much dreaded Round Robin finals while maintaining a reasonable balance between byes and excluded signups.
The current guidelines for live tours listed here are as follows:
A way to remove the Round Robin bracket sizes for non-live tours proposed by Boat here is to use this sizes:
However, with these sizes you can end up with nearly 1/3 of signups getting excluded from the tournament, which is high for a live tour setting where drastically fewer R1 subs occur. I think a better balance might be to cap the excluded percentage at 20%, which gives just under 60% of players R1 byes at the absolute minimum entrant number for each bracket size.
With the 20% cap, sizes would look like this instead:
For example, with 161 entrants you'd use the 256 bracket size and have 95 R1 byes with the remaining 66 players actually playing R1.
This is a Lot of byes, but I think the tradeoff could be worth it to get rid of the universally disliked Round Robin resets considering that the difference between the first round bye and playing round one isn't too consequential for points and the playoff picture (although this imbalance is regrettable).
If not this 20% suggestion or Boat's 33% suggestion, I hope that we can come up with some percentage that strikes a reasonable balance between the tradeoffs without employing bracket sizes that have Round Robin finals.
The current guidelines for live tours listed here are as follows:
- To create a tournament with 24 players, you need to have at least 18 real sign-ups & maximum 6 byes (finals will be between 3 players)
- 32 players, 25 real sign-ups & 7 byes
- 48 players, 35 real sign-ups & 11 byes (3-way final)
- 64 players, 49 real sign-ups & 15 byes
- 96 players, 73 real sign-ups & 23 byes (3-way final)
- 128 players, 97 real sign-ups & 31 byes
- 192 players, 145 real sign-ups & 47 byes (3-way final)
- 256 players, 193 real sign-ups & 63 byes
- 384 players, 289 real sign-ups & 95 byes (3-way final)
- 512 players, 385 real sign-ups & 127 byes
A way to remove the Round Robin bracket sizes for non-live tours proposed by Boat here is to use this sizes:
Size 16 : 12 - 23
Size 32 : 24 - 47
Size 64 : 48 - 95
Size 128 : 96 - 191
Size 256 : 192 - 383
Size 512 : 384 - 767
Size 1024 : 768 - 1535
Size 2048 : 1536 - 3071
Size 32 : 24 - 47
Size 64 : 48 - 95
Size 128 : 96 - 191
Size 256 : 192 - 383
Size 512 : 384 - 767
Size 1024 : 768 - 1535
Size 2048 : 1536 - 3071
However, with these sizes you can end up with nearly 1/3 of signups getting excluded from the tournament, which is high for a live tour setting where drastically fewer R1 subs occur. I think a better balance might be to cap the excluded percentage at 20%, which gives just under 60% of players R1 byes at the absolute minimum entrant number for each bracket size.
With the 20% cap, sizes would look like this instead:
Size 16 : 11 - 20
Size 32 : 21 - 40
Size 64 : 41 - 80
Size 128 : 81 - 160
Size 256 : 161 - 320
Size 512 : 321 - 640
Size 1024 : 641 - 1280
Size 2048 : 1281 - 1560
Size 32 : 21 - 40
Size 64 : 41 - 80
Size 128 : 81 - 160
Size 256 : 161 - 320
Size 512 : 321 - 640
Size 1024 : 641 - 1280
Size 2048 : 1281 - 1560
For example, with 161 entrants you'd use the 256 bracket size and have 95 R1 byes with the remaining 66 players actually playing R1.
This is a Lot of byes, but I think the tradeoff could be worth it to get rid of the universally disliked Round Robin resets considering that the difference between the first round bye and playing round one isn't too consequential for points and the playoff picture (although this imbalance is regrettable).
If not this 20% suggestion or Boat's 33% suggestion, I hope that we can come up with some percentage that strikes a reasonable balance between the tradeoffs without employing bracket sizes that have Round Robin finals.