IRI Rule Changes - 2012

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Clinton Bolinger

I thought that MSC is was going to come down to win/loss but everyone else thought the same thing. Teams risked going for the win more then going for the co-op. I think you would have seen the same thing at IRI.

Even if you base MSC data off of just win/loss, your rankings within the top 10 basically shuffle. You drop/gain 2 teams.

Win/Loss Top 10

469 - 22
2054 - 20
2137 - 20
573 - 20
70 - 18
548 - 18
67 - 18
4294 - 16
2337 - 16

Compared to the Coop Top 10:

469 - 46
67 - 42
2054 - 40
3098 - 38
573 - 38
548 - 38
4294 - 38
2337 - 36
51 - 36
862 - 36

Dropping coop at IRI isn't an issue at all.

However, I'm going to leave this stat here. On average at MSC, a match was one by 19 points (19.3046875, to be exact). So on average, the 20 extra points from the triple would have changed the winner of the match. If the original losing alliance had gone for a triple and the original winning alliance hadn't gone for a triple in the matches where the outcome of the match could have been changed by 20 points, 75 matches would have been changed (approx 59% of the matches played at MSC).

If someone has a link for the long vs wide at MSC, I'd be more than willing to do basically the same thing that Joe Ross did for MSC. Since, as it is now, it's hard to draw a conclusion based off of only that data.