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Originally Posted by Siri
Out of curiosity, I notice that the match results for Friday appear to be different between the two .pdf files. (Match 15 goes from 11-15 to 11-16, Match 40 goes from 8-10 to 10-10, among others.) I remember Stu announcing on Saturday that the seeding had changed overnight because of the lack of DOGMA. Did I miss that there was a change in scoring as well, or is one file just off a little? (For the two matches listed at least, I believe the scores displayed at the time reflected the earlier .pdf.)
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Siri,
Good question.
There were two changes that had to be made to the scoring of some of the matches on Friday evening. DOGMA penalty adjustments were one. The other was to fix the method we were systematically scoring each match, as we were using human scorers AND the sensor scorers. If there was a discrepancy between the two scoring methods at the end of the match, we had to choose one or the other: human or sensors. During the first 60 or so matches, we chose to use the human scorers.
After looking at the system and spending much time discussing this between Mark Koors (the FTA), Stu Bloom (the head ref) and myself, we decided to use the sensor system as the accepted score, unless there was a significant (4-5 balls or more) difference between the two systems. Essentially, if there was a catastrophic error in the sensor scoring system, then the human count would be used. If not, then the human count was not used.
So, we had to make some changes mid-stream. We decided to make this scoring method change after match 60 (or somewhere around there), and we also decided to go back and correct the slight adjustments which were made to some of the system scores between matches 1-60 (we were able to see in which matches these adjustments were made). Due to this, on matches that were close in scores, some of the match results changed. For instance, during matches 40 and 55, these changes resulted in ties instead of wins/losses for the teams involved.
I hope this helps explain things.
Andy