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Originally Posted by Ed Law
Your "penalty" of having a high strength is only (26.33-25.77)*2=1.12...
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That is correct. On average I would have alliance partners with 4% lower scoring potential than an average team. A team at the opposite end of the curve might have a 4% advantage to their partners on average.
Adding in the additional constraints would likely lead to a balancing effect. If I am partnered with another good team, it would require a substantially larger number of bad teams to even out that influence of the 1 good partner. Thus driving down the average of my additional match partners substantially lower. The "good" news is by luck of the draw, I had a match with 2 good partners. The "bad news" is that to work out the averaging function, the rest of my partners are now well below average. The same would hold true from opponents. You could go up against 3 60 point opponents, and then the average leftover would be... (79*12-180)11=69 pts for the new average for your additional matches.. Thus a substantially easier road to and 11-1 record.
At an event where there are fewer matches, this is compounded even larger. Run the numbers for a championship division. If you have 1 death match, you would essentially have very easy remainder matches.