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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man
First takeaway: Why was the QS capped at 22 pts instead of the previous 24?
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In the
GameSense interview, Frank mentioned that only 0.6% of all teams scored 24 points last year. I guess it would have been nice to have a perfect comparison to last year, but ignoring the 0.6% doesn't seem devastating to me.
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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man
Also, why is the minimum 4 instead of 0?
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In the summary document, it says "typically-sized district events" would have a minimum of 4 points. Though, in the explanation document the tables show that at about an event size of 55 the minimum goes from 4 to 3.
Using Rachel Lim's district points widget, it looks like 3 is the minimum going all the way up to a tournament size of 1,000. If you look at the explanation document, the range scale in the formula is 10, but the gain factor at the end is 12; that says to me the formula is built to never go below 2 points, and because of the nature of the Inverse Error Function (going to infinity at the limits and all) and the use of the Ceiling function, you will never go below 3 points period.
Though, I must admit, it would be a crushing blow for a team to show up at an event and get no points whatsoever. Even if they don't have aspirations of making it to the District Championships, getting a goose-egg is deflating.