[Ian Curtis]

I think a one sentence version of Danny's white paper should really ought to go into the manual with a graph (and a link to the white paper!). This function is going to be needed to be explained several thousand times this season and teams/volunteers/the public seeing math as a scary black box is good for no one.

Something along the lines of "This function assumes teams are approximately normally distributed, and awards points based on rank. The #1 seed will receive 22 points, the middle of the pack ~12, and the lowest ranked teams ~4.

Then a plot for a 40 team event, with rank on the x axis and points awarded on the y.